Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
Eden Hazard
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
Oscar Isaac
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Quinn Shephard
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I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.
Nadia Comaneci
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There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
Flannery O'Connor
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They have to pay people competitive wages and competitive benefits.
Lee J. Cobb
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
Sai Baba
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I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world.
Louis Tomlinson
One Direction
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One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
