Blaise Pascal Quotes
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.
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We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.
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The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.
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I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.
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I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
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It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.
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If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.
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There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
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What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.
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We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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The leaves and the light are one.
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When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
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Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
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Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.
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If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.
