Blaise Pascal Quotes
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
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When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
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I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
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The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.