Blaise Pascal Quotes
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Quotes to Explore
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
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I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.
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Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
