Blaise Pascal Quotes
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.Blaise Pascal
Quotes to Explore
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee -
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
Igor Luksic -
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie -
A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
Gabe Newell -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
Dan O'Brien -
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
Dambisa Moyo -
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
N. T. Wright -
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
Randy Houser -
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson -
I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
Sam Shepard
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
Parker Young -
I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
Adam Driver -
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent -
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
Malin Akerman
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett -
I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.
Ian Mckellen -
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Thomas A. Edison -
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
Rene Descartes -
My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?
Michael Ealy -
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.
Blaise Pascal