Blaise Pascal Quotes
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
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Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.
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America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
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I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.
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He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
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I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
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Ludicrous is probably the best word I could think of.
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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
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To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
