Blaise Pascal Quotes
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Quotes to Explore
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
