Blaise Pascal Quotes
It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.
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In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
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It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
