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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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
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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.
