Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

Blaise Pascal

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

  Maya Angelou
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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
  • People
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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.

  

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  • World
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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
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  • Heart

• We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
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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.

  

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  • Woman
  • Skirt

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

  

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• I think Alice Cooper probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

  

  Johnny Depp
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  • Alice Cooper
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• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
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  • Wicked

• 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.

  

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• I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
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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