Blaise Pascal Quotes

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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• I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

  

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• Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

  

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• To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.

  

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• I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

  

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• Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

  

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• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Sensitivity
  • Indicates
  • Inversion