Blaise Pascal Quotes
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
Quotes to Explore
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
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The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.
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You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.
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Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
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I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.
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You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.
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Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
