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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novel

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

Other quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature
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Nicolas Chamfort
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Death
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Nicolas Chamfort
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. – Camille Paglia

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History

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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History

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. – Claude Vorilhon

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History

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

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You cant think and hit the ball at the same time. – Yogi Berra

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. – Tom Allen

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When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. Theres a momentum for change thats very compelling. – Anne M. Mulcahy

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Change