Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
