Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
Irving Kristol
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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
Alfred Jodl
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I am sorry to say that at the moment I am so busy as to be convinced that life has no meaning whatever... I do not see that we can judge what would be the result of the discovery of truth, since none has hitherto been discovered.
Bertrand Russell
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
Elizabeth Berg
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I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.
Colin Kaepernick
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All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
Nicholas James Murphy
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
Betty Smith
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The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.
Yaroslav Trofimov
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
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The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.
Stephen Tobolowsky
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Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas