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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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.
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In just shutting your eyes and following fundamental theorem of calculus, we are led into a grievous error.
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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.
