Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Garrett Fort
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
Adam Mansbach
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
Laura Hillenbrand
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So I just play the character, I play the lines.
Fiona Shaw
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
Eddie Marsan
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
Albert Einstein
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Never take yourself too seriously.
Ariana Grande
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
