Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
Barry Eichengreen
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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.
Samuel E. Morison
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
Dan Rosensweig
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
Fernando Pessoa
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.
Orson Scott Card
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
Jack Kerouac
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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.
Larry Hogan
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Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
Colin Wilson
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
Benito Mussolini
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Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
Andrew Nikiforuk
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At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
Keith Coogan
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I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
David Heyman
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Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.
Freida Pinto
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
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People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
Jim Lovell
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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
Georg Hermes
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Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.
Barbara Stanwyck
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
Albert Einstein
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Hail, hieroglyphic State machine,Contrived to punish fancy in;Men that are men in thee can feel no pain,And all thy insignificance disdain!
Daniel Defoe
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The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under the most miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that, brains need to: (1) generate internal signals that register what our bodies need, such as food, rest, protection, sex, and shelter; (2) create a map of the world to point us where to go to satisfy those needs; (3) generate the necessary energy and actions to get us there; (4) warn us of dangers and opportunities along the way; and (5) adjust our actions based on the requirements of the moment.
Bessel van der Kolk
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
