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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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
Jules Michelet
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
Edwin Percy Whipple