Blaise Pascal Quotes

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

Blaise Pascal

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  Camille Paglia
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• Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

  

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• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

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• If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

  

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• We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

  

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• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
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• The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• I ask how far away the eye can discern a non-luminous body, as, for instance, a mountain. It will be very plainly visible if the sun is behind it; and could be seen at a greater or less distance according to the sun's place in the sky.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• (on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Men

• I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Music
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• Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

  

  Amanda Beard
  • Good
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• Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Words

• Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Mind
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• I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

  

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• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  

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• Bullying happens at all ages and levels. Ralph Macchio Bullying Happens Levels Ages I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986. Ralph Macchio Morning World Win Comedy I still feel that the original 'Karate Kid' is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It's a bit of soulful magic. Ralph Macchio Work Time Feel Great To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything. Ralph Macchio Life Me You Humor What's most exciting about the 'Cobra Kai' series is that it pays homage to the legacy; it has the nostalgia sprinkled throughout, the callbacks to all the stuff the fans would want to see. It has a completely fresh, relevant angle into the next generation.

  

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  • Running
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• Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Telling

• He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Knows
  • Believes
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• Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believes
  • Telling
  • Regulate