Blaise Pascal Quotes
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I was born with an evil face.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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The truth is that a campaign defines how the electorate will see their president - and this all the more true when shaping the president's image in the eyes of the largest constituency that will actually not vote for them: the international community.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
