Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Maggie Hassan
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Foster Friess
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Natalie Dormer
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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.
Harriet Tubman
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It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
Lady Gaga
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks
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Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.
Avram Davidson
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
L. M. Shaw
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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According to an English seaman named Aaron Thomas, who sailed to Newfoundland on the HMS Boston: If you come for their Feathers you do not give yourself the trouble of killing them, but lay hold of one and pluck the best of the Feathers. You then turn the poor Penguin adrift, with his skin half naked and torn off, to perish at his leisure.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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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