Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.
John Rawls
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In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.
Philip Caputo
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We are very concerned about this particular individual because he is driving a car that resemble a legitimate police vehicle. He's using police-type lights. He has a police-type uniform, a police-type hat. This individual means to do what he's doing and he's dangerous.
John Whiting
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False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
Winston Smith
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It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
Josh Schwartz
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I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
Mike Binder
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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
Napoleon III
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The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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It is not legitimate to use something that pains and angers us all for political benefit.
Ernesto Zedillo
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
Kate Reardon
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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
Peter Lynch
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You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.
Rachel Caine
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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.
Adria Petty
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Be on the lookout for global warming for God's sakes, although I don't think you can really "see" it. It's something you feel, deep inside, at the moment you have second thoughts about spraying those CFCs outside your home each afternoon in hopes of making it just a little friggin' warmer - is that too much to ask? - in your neck of the woods.
Davis Schneiderman
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
Babasaheb
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Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.
Bhagat Puran Singh
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
