Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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You meet nice people in line. I come out early every year.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
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If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.
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I was surprised, but we didn't really struggle because we moved the ball. It's just that at the end of every drive, we made a physical error, and you really can't battle back from those, especially against a very good defense.
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For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.
