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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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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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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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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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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person.
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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
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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.
