Blaise Pascal Quotes

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

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• Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

  

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• No, the serpent did notSeduce Eve to the apple.All that's simplyCorruption of the facts.Adam ate the apple.Eve ate Adam.The serpent ate Eve.This is the dark intestine.The serpent, meanwhile,Sleeps his meal off in Paradise-Smiling to hearGod's querulous calling.

  

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• Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.

  

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• I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.

  

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• Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.

  

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• I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

  

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• For too many, to work means having less income.

  

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• I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.

  

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• The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.

  

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• It's important to stay current and fresh.

  

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• Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

  

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• I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

  

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• If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

  

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• I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.

  

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• I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

  

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• I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  

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• With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.

  

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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Signs
  • Sensitivity
  • Disoders