Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
Baruch Spinoza
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
Larry Holmes
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The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.
H. L. Mencken
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
Anne Rice
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel
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Adam Johnson was a revolution when he came on.
Bobby Gould
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I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Cathy Rigby
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
Naomi Judd
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What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things.
Epictetus
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas