Blaise Pascal Quotes
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.Blaise Pascal
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay -
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz -
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Kary Mullis -
If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
Adam Cohen -
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I have never used steroids. Period.
Rafael Palmeiro
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne Dyer -
I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
Calvin Johnson -
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Ian Mcewan -
I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
Nafisa Joseph -
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Carlos Fuentes -
I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
Harbhajan Singh
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie -
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus -
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.
Babatunde Adebimpe -
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.
Jean Chretien
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
William of Occam -
The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.
Mark Walport -
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
Barbara Corcoran -
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
Benjamin Rush -
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
Blaise Pascal