Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Nothing is wasted.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
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Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
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I would argue that we are in the middle of the biggest cable-news bull market that we have seen in some time. Clearly outside of any war that has taken an ongoing story that has taken several weeks at a time. It's anyone's guess as to when it ends, if it ever does. And I think all of that is remarkable. No one predicted it.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
