Blaise Pascal Quotes
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I was tested against the best.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
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Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
