"Deception is the knowledge of kings."

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Source : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

Cardinal Richelieu

#Kings Quotes #Deception Quotes

“I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me”

Source : Song: Money Talks
“I hear better with a pen in my hand.”

Source : Alan Judd (1995). “Devil's Own Work”, Vintage Books
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.”
“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.”
“And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.”
“Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.”
“If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.”
“There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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