Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?
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Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
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Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
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Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.
