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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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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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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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
J Mascis
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I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.
Zachary Alexander Bagans
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If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
Mark Steyn
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As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.
Julie Kagawa
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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
Ian Kershaw
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The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.
Jack Straw
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The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.
Yamaoka Tesshu
