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 just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
Val Kilmer
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
Walter Cronkite
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My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
Mamie Gummer
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After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.
Xavier de Maistre
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
