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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#fashion #industry #levied #poor #rich

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#doing #more #needs #nothing #reminders

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. ↗

— Mary Austin

#enough #hills #room #sense #time

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#anything #builds #certainly #done #gives

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#democratic #dependent #having #intelligence #issue

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#comes #count #his #job #nomination

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#find #get #injustices #life #men

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable