Blaise Pascal Quotes
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Quotes to Explore
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
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Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.
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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
