Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

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• For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  

  Lance Loud
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• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
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• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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• Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

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• Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

  

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• Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.

  

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• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

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• I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

  

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• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

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• The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

  

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• The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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