Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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People never notice anything.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
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It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.
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No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
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You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
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You have to pay people real money.
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I'll probably lose every friend I've got, but I think the Russians are about the only people who have behaved decently in the conflict with the Ukraine. All the evidence to the contrary seems a bit bogus to me. NATO is trying to use Ukraine to isolate and cripple Russia, and that's completely crazy and very cruel. It seems to me that our side, the English and American people, really want it to go bad there. But there's no need for it to have done so. At least that's what I think. You won't hear a lot of that on Fox News.
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The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade against Atheism. The stage in which heresy meant little more than all exchange of one god for another has passed. It has become a case of acceptance or rejection of the idea of God, and the growth is with those who reject.
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One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.
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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
