Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527
As a Prince (political ruler),
it is best to be both feared and loved.
But if you have to choose between the two,
it is better to be feared than loved.
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Emiliano Zapata
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata was born on Aug. 8, 1879, in Anenecuilco, Mexico and died on April 10, 1919, in the state of Morelos, Mexico. He was a Mexican revolutionary, champion of agrarianism, and fought in guerrilla actions during and after the Mexican Revolution (1911-17).
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Pancho Villa
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Pancho Villa
Being double-crossed is not something that I want to happen to me, or someone wants to do to me due to what will happen to them
- Pancho Villa
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Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
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Sir Winston Churchhill
1930
The farther backwards you can look, the farther
forward you are likely to see.
Sir Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
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Malcom X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcom X
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
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Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Salvador Dali
There is only one difference between a madman and me.
I am not mad.
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Charlie Chaplin
All I need to make a comedy is a park,
a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown.
It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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Marlon Brando
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
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Sun Szu
LEADER LEADS BY EXAMPLE NOT BY FORCE.
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.
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Plato
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress,
no matter how slow.
Pablo Picasso
"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
Benjamin Frankilin
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Frankilin
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
God helps those who help themselves.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Frankilin
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
James Allen
"To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
He that rises late must trot all day.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
He that's secure is not safe.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Frankilin
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
George Lucas
"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
"The creative process?... You must say to yourself I feel like doing so and so, I think it's that simple."
E. Paul Torrence and Laura K. Hall, Journal of Creative Behavior, 1980
"Creative people: 1, have their energy field accessible; 2, have the ability to tap and release unconscious and preconscious thought; 3, are able to withstand being thought of as abnormal or eccentric; 4, are more sensitive; 5, have a richer fantasy life and greater involvement in daydreaming; 6, are enthusiastic and impulsive; 7, show signs of synaesthesia (e.g., tasting color, seeing sound, hearing smells, etc.); 8, show different brain wave patterns than the less creative, especially during creative activity; 9, when confronted with novelty of design, music, or ideas, they get excitied and involved (less creative people get suspicious and hostile); 10, when given a new solution to a problem, they get enthused, suggest other ideas, overlook details and problems (less creative students analyze the defects rather than explore potentials."
Henry James
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
""Art will never be able to exist without nature."
Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE)
"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish."
George Tooker
"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings."
Edgar Degas.
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso
"Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Michelangelo
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
Hippocrates
"Life is short, art endures"
Frank Zappa
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Mark Rothko
"Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks."
Oscar Wilde.
"Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known."
Albert Einstein
"The World is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the best policy.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.