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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#nature #people #prince #understand

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. ↗

— James Madison

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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I'm not driven by being understood. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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He was a great thundering paradox of a man. ↗

— William Manchester

#man #paradox #thundering

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. ↗