Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Isaac Newton
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I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
William Standish Knowles
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Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Hannah Arendt
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It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.
David LaChapelle
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This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.
Stephen Elop
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
Isaac D'Israeli