Blaise Pascal Quotes

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Blaise Pascal

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• I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

  

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• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  

  Ed Smith
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• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

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• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

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• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
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• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  

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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
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• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Strange
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• Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Good
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• I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

  

  Jasper Fforde
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• We thank all our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. We trust that you will continue to stand by us as we tackle the challenges of building peace, prosperity, non-sexism, non-racialism and democracy.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
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• The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Mind
  • Sad

• Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Justice
  • Strength