Blaise Pascal Quotes

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

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• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

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• Death is better than slavery.

  

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• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

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• You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

  

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• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

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• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

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• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

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• Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

  

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

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• I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

  

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• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

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• In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

  

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• I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.

  

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• I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

  

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• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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  • Chamber
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