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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Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
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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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It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
