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.
Madame de Stael
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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.
Ori Gersht
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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.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom
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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.
Patrick J. Adams
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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.
R. Kelly
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
Mandy Moore
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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.
Cameron Russell
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
Edmund White
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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.
Indira Gandhi
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
Alan Watts
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette Midler
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
Al Pacino
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
Alan Hansen
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
Antonio Machado
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There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
Dahlia Lithwick
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Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.
Benjamin De Casseres
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In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.
Eric Foner
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
Virginia Woolf
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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.
Blaise Pascal