Blaise Pascal Quotes
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
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Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.
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I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.
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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
