Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Politics have no relation to morals."
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John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"In politics the middle way is none at all."
Emma Goldman
Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
Jennifer Lawrence
Actress
"I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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"In politics, nothing is contemptible."
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"Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'."
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"When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience."
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"…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’."
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"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
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"Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know."
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"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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"The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither"
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"Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day."
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"I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games."
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"Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse"
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"A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones."
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"Nerd life is just so much better than regular life."
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"Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one"
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"That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that."
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"If only he can get over becoming a NERD."
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"I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd."
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"My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"
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"Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party."
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