Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.
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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
