Blaise Pascal Quotes
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Quotes to Explore
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
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Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.
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My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
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It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
