Blaise Pascal Quotes
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
Blaise Pascal
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
Taylor Swift
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
Zendaya
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
Zeljko Ivanek
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Zhang Yimou
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
Adam Hamilton
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
Yoko Ono
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Orhan Pamuk
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
Sam Kean
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
P. D. James
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When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.
Pramila Jayapal
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When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.
Dalai Lama
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This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
Blaise Pascal
