Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.
