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.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
Ferran Adria -
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.
Orhan Pamuk -
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Douglas Coupland -
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Bill Delahunt -
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.
Heraclitus -
You meet nice people in line. I come out early every year.
John Whiting -
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.
Ernest Hemingway -
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.
Muhammad Ali -
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.
Plato -
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Erykah Badu
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If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.
Anthony Robbins -
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
Al-Maʿarri -
For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli