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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How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.
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It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
