Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach -
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Sam Harris -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
Rachel Bloom -
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
E. F. Benson -
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr -
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy -
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi -
You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
Majora Carter -
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
T. D. Jakes
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky -
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie -
I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.
AJ McLean -
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian -
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.
Ayn Rand
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My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.
Sadegh Hedayat -
You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
Dennis Crowley -
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
Anton Chekhov -
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
Matthew Ashford -
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas