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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian
Writer
Born:
May 3
,
1469
Died:
Jun 21
,
1527
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Preserving
Status
Status Quo
Overthrow
Want
Quo
Not Interested
Interested
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin Powell
Work
Needs
Tough Times
You
Together
People
Listening
Diplomacy
Tough
Own
Other
Preserving
Relationships
Guy
Develop
Come
Times
Work Together
Your
Position
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.
Vladimir Putin
Enemies
Will
Fall
Nation
Own
Preserving
Vital
Bearing
Ideals
Foreign
Loses
Itself
Reproducing
Apart
Capable
Then
Need
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan
Happiness
Art
Change
Living
Preserving
Consist
Must
Allowed
Allowing
Disappointed
Particular
Like
Without
Does
Clinging
Up
Mode
Child
Being
Form
Grow
Grow Up
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
Christopher Alexander
You
Vision
Preserving
Must
About
Something
Arises
Instinct
Builder
Which
Your
Speaking
Enhancing
Thing
Start
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
Christopher Alexander
You
Vision
Feeling
Preserving
Correctly
Must
About
Something
Arises
Instinct
Builder
Wander
Which
Working
Your
Speaking
Enhancing
Thing
Start
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
Donella Meadows
Alone
Needs
Nature
National
Few
Preserving
Rangers
Gene
Properly
More
Park
Parks
Maintain
Maintained
Protecting
Without
However
Left
Itself
Than
National Parks
Human
Expense
Banks
Room
Function
Species
Biodiversity
Zoo
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Frances Beinecke
Ocean
National
Past
Every
Preserving
President
Waters
Monument
Monuments
Hawaiian
Islands
George
Years
George W
George W. Bush
Square
Square Miles
Northwestern
In The Past
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Bush
Roosevelt
Creating
Miles
Nearly
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
Giordano Bruno
Nature
Simple
Light
Mother
Universe
Assumes
Preserving
Herself
All Things
Diverse
Insofar
Various
Casts
Divinity
Names
She
Subjects
Found
Her
Things
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.
John Marshall
Life
Family
Events
Worth
My Life
Too
Preserving
Immediate
Render
Person
Any
Interest
Little
Them
Communicating
Unimportant
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