Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
Joanne Rowling
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You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.
Joanne Rowling
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I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
Joanne Rowling
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.
Gabriel Iglesias
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
R. K. Milholland
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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Robert Frost
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
Diane Ackerman
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Langer
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In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.
Alan Young
