Blaise Pascal Quotes
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
Blaise Pascal
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
Rachel Caine
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
Alessandra Ambrosio
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I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
Angelina Jolie
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
Angelina Jolie
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
E.D. Baker
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
William Shakespeare
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And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.
Eric Weiner
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
Willa Cather
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Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.
Dr. John
