Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Albert Einstein
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
Oliver Hardy
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.
Jeffrey DeMunn
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
John McCrae
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
Paul Auster
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
Vladimir Nabokov
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
Albert Einstein
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert Einstein
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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
John Milton
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
