Blaise Pascal Quotes
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
