Blaise Pascal Quotes
Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
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I want to make sure that people feel it's okay to make a mistake, to have a bad hair day, to look bad sometimes. It takes the pressure off them.
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We have basically been just trying to calm people down, let them know, once again. this is another kind of mistake made either by the federal government or the insurance companies or both.
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I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be enough. The things I write about, if you notice, are sensitive issues for a lot of people. If I told you my age, they would get ideas. The next thing you know they'll be filing lawsuits against me.
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Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
