Blaise Pascal Quotes
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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No man fails who does his best.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved their hands in farewell and turned their faces at last towards the magical adventures that stalked about impatiently awaiting their advent in the strange countries where their havens lay.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
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We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.
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The subject is not just the theory of evolution, the subject is the reality of God.
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
