Blaise Pascal Quotes
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
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The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.
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Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
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Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
