Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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Chess is mental torture.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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Home's the most excellent place of all.
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Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
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We're happy to keep someone of Tom's caliber in Philadelphia. Tom has done an excellent job and it was important for this organization to have him continue in this general manager role for the foreseeable future.
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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
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People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'
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I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
