Blaise Pascal Quotes
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
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When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
