Blaise Pascal Quotes

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

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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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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

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• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  

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• You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Important
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• We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Fall
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• Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Good
  • May
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• When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

  

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  • Skirt

• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Thinking
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  • Legs

• Obama was heckled by someone who said, 'Don't forget about medical marijuana.' The Secret Service has narrowed the suspects down to everyone in L.A.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Service
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  • Secret Service

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
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• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.

  

  David First
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• If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Kill
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• History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood
  • History
  • Political
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• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Kill
  • Wicked
  • Prevent