Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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I'm a loner.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.
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When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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Listen more often than you speak.
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D'euls deus fu il tut autresiCume del chevrefoil esteitKi a la codre se perneit:Quant il s'i est laciez e prisEnsemble poënt bien durer;Mes ki puis les volt deservrer,Li codres muert hastivementE li chevrefoil ensement.'Bele amie, si est de nus:Ne vus sanz mei, ne mei sanz vus!'
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A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
