Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Francesco Guicciardini

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• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

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• I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

  

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• I love my sleep.

  

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

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• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

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• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

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• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

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• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

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• All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

  

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• In order to get the funding through for the wall, it was being held up by conservatives – or I would of thought you know sane humans – in the Senate who don’t want taxpayers like you and me paying for these lengthy transgender operations, years of therapy.

  

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• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
  • Matter
  • Authority