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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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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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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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
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I struggle with control.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
