Stephen Kinzer quote: "Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen."

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No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
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The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Ni...
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What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government...
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Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced a...
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Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-spon...
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Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Le...
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Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplom...
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Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.
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Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
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Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in s...
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There is very little hope that the United States or anyone else can do much to stabilize Iraq, Libya...
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Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska na...
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Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emer...
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Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I repre...
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
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Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
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Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
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Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
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Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
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The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
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Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
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I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
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I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
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I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
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I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
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[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
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John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
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They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
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I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
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Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
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My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
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I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
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Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
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Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
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secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
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Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
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I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
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I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
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I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
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It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
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I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
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My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
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A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
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The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
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Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
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The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
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Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
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His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER

After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
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You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
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Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING

We accept the love we think we deserve.
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Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

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Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

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