Blaise Pascal Quotes
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
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For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
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I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.
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Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
