Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
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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.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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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.
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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.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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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.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
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One of the best ways to improve my longevity that is to minimize injury or avoid it by being more flexible especially when we are meeting at the net. There is a hitter and blocker, which means a lot foot contact, where you can twist your ankle easily.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
