Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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I always wear Nike trainers and love a hoodie. I have a big black and gold one from Adidas that I'm obsessed with.
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I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
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In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
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UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.
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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
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I'm in no way running from 'Hamilton' or its success or these beautiful songs that I've been blessed to be able to be the one to introduce them. I certainly won't be the last to sing them, but to be the first, I feel very lucky.
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I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.
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Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.
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Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
