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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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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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
Louis XVIII of France
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It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
Eve Merriam
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We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.
Faramir
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
