Blaise Pascal Quotes
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.
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No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
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Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
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In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
