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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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.
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Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
