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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If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
Confucius
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
George Bernard Shaw
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When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.
T. J. Miller