Blaise Pascal Quotes
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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Pilates is great.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
