Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
Malala Yousafzai
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
Beau Willimon
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Abraham Lincoln
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Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
Raymond Aron
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
James Anthony Froude
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
Parker Posey
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If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
