Blaise Pascal Quotes

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
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• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

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• I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

  

  Pam Grier
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• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
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• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
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  • Japanese

• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
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• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
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• This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

  

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• You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,

  

  Kevin Madison
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  • Mom
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• I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
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• We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nation
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• The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

  

  Edward T. Hall
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• Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.

  

  Jesus David Torres
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• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion
  • Stars
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• I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Children
  • Consciousness
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• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Consciousness
  • Vanity
  • Pleasures