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.
Eamon de Valera
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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.
Gail Simmons
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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.
Louise Glück
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It takes some silence to make sound.
Jason Mraz
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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
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If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.
Geoffrey Gorer
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
Will Self
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The word book acted as a transient stimulus...
Charlotte Bronte
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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.
Terence McKenna
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You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
Sarah Dessen
