Blaise Pascal Quotes
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
Blaise Pascal
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal
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It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
Nat Wolff
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
Hannibal Buress
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
Mark Skousen
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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
Thomas Hobbes
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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Sophocles
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
Seneca the Younger
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Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.
Herbert Spencer
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
Edmund Hillary
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
Blaise Pascal
