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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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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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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A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.
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If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.
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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.
