Blaise Pascal Quotes

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I'm very wary of news on television.

  

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• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  

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• I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

  

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• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

  

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• Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

  

  B. B. King
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• In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

  

  Carey Williams
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• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

  

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• When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.

  

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• Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

  

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• Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

  

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• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

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• Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

  

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• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Eating
  • Hunger
  • Weary