Blaise Pascal Quotes
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Quotes to Explore
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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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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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.
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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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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
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Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.
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Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
