Blaise Pascal Quotes
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.
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What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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My Instagram is all me. I like to keep it very personal, and I'd like to keep it that way. You don't really follow to see promotional things at all times. It's my connection with my fans.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
