Blaise Pascal Quotes
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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That proverbial saying, 'Ill news goes quick and far.'
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I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
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The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
