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  • Machiavelli It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alan Dershowitz It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Bennett It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Madeleine Albright It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
    Madeleine Albright
    Czechoslovak-American politician and diplomat. (1937 - 2022)
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut It was a thunderingly beautiful experience - voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Asa Gray It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Samuel Johnson It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brandon Routh It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Alfred Einstein It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
    Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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