Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
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If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.
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You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.
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...if God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
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More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.
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I have never asked a prime minister for anything.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
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The word book acted as a transient stimulus...
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May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
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Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural.
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Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.
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We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
