Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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The eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
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Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
