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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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
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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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It's important that we continue to uplift and strengthen our LGBTQ youth who are the future of our community and remind them that their voices are heard.
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.
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I saw Baby Spice and insisted on talking to her. I tapped her on the shoulder and stood there like a lemon. I wanted to tell her how brilliant she was. Instead I said something like, 'Great woman!' It wasn't my finest moment.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
