Blaise Pascal Quotes
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
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Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
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There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
