Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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will help activate the political mediation of the situation in that country with an active role of the United Nations.
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Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.
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Depression is a choice.
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Love forbids you not to love.
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I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.
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We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
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We have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.
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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.
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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
