Blaise Pascal Quotes
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.
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Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
