Blaise Pascal Quotes
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
