Blaise Pascal Quotes
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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I put Compton on the map.
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I honor - we honor - the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.
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Ars adeo latet arte sua.
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We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.
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You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they're hearing, because that's the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs.
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Always good to shake it up and do something different.
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When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
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I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
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When 'Titanic' came out on VHS, I was working at a Sam's Club, which is already the worst. I don't know what you know about working for the Walton family, but it's horrific.
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Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.
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I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.
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I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.
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There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.
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At the moment of conception.
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An infirmity which affects the whole race, is no proper object for the scorn of an individual who belongs to that race, and who, before he could expose it, must himself have been its slave.
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It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.
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Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
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History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
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Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
