Blaise Pascal Quotes
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise Pascal
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns
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The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
Edward James Olmos
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
George Bernard Shaw
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Dealing with a government Tsarist Russia with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.
John Hay
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After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise Pascal
