Blaise Pascal Quotes

Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident.

Blaise Pascal

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Ability
  • Privilege
  • Case

• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Unhappy

• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • History
  • Girl
  • Find

• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Shows
  • Been
  • Preserved

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Business
  • Always
  • Open

• I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Name

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Passion
  • Criticism
  • Poems

• In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• They could see the rapids on their right. The swaying of the bus made her sick and weak, and her willpower was failing with her strength. She was afraid of falling into a torpor in which everything would become immaterial to her, and she tensed in an effort to seem gay and even attentive to Emmanuel.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Effort
  • Gay

• Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• 'I was trained in the old tradition! We found our strength in the basic verities, to which you, as a patrician, must surely subscribe. Am I right in this?''Absolutely, and in all respects!' declared Cugel. 'Recognizing, of course, that these fundamental verities vary from region to region, and even from person to person.'

  

  Jack Vance

• As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science

• I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.

  

  Craig Thompson
  • Desire
  • Focus
  • Islamic

• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art

• I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

  

  Estelle
  • Fighting
  • Realize
  • Embraced

• Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident.

  

  Blaise Pascal