Blaise Pascal Quotes
Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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That was my problem then and it's my problem now; I have a bad attitude. In a nutshell, I fear authority but at the same time I resent it - the authority and my own fear - so I rebel. And writing SF is a way to rebel. … SF is a rebellious art form and it needs writers and readers and bad attitudes - an attitude of 'Why?' or 'How come?' or 'Who says?'
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I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'
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True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.
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Food is the new Internet.
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[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
