Blaise Pascal Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
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What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
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Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.
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I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.
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Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.
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My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.
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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
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There are fun parts of running a startup and not so fun parts, and Facebook handles the not so fun parts, like infrastructure, spam, sales. The real questions are, how big can 'Instagram' get? Is it 400 million, or bigger? Can it be a viable business if it is that big? These are at the top of the list for everyone in Silicon Valley.
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In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.
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I always think that some of those moms who are rocking cool fashion looks while walking their little babies in a stroller is just the bomb. You don't have to, all of a sudden, have to transition into 'mom' outfits from the '90s just because you became a mom.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.
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Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
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One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
