Blaise Pascal Quotes

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

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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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• 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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• 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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• I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

  

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• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

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• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

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• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  

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• I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.

  

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• I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

  

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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.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Truth Is