Blaise Pascal Quotes
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
Quotes to Explore
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.
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We will consider any new resolutions that support the weapons inspectors' work. But we will not support any resolutions that directly or indirectly authorize using force against Iraq
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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
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I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
