Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
Nancy Gibbs
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
O. Henry
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
Foster Friess
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
Natascha McElhone
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
Victor Davis Hanson
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I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.
Aaron Bruno
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The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
Richard Feynman
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For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Heraclitus
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
