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 think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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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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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
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Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
