Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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That man made me miss my destiny.
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The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
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Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
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Overcriminalization has become a national plague.
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We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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Experience does for the soul, what education does for the mind.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Happy is the nation without a history.
