Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.
~ Charles MacKay
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The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
~ Hannah Arendt
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You have to think carefully in advance about what you’re making and how you will make it, because for both architecture and industrial design, the cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation.
~ Dieter Rams
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Deceit and duplicity aren’t bugs in Steve Bannon’s matrix; they’re part of the operating system.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Discipline in war counts more than fury.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It should be noted that hatred is acquired as much by good works as by bad ones, therefore, as I said before, a prince wishing to keep his state is very often forced to do evil.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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