Blaise Pascal Quotes
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.Blaise Pascal
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
G. Willow Wilson -
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
G. Edward Griffin
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk -
Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
Kate Walsh -
I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
Kate Klise -
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
Natalia Vodianova -
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
Vin Scully
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
Natalie Cole -
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
Padma Lakshmi -
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine -
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
Iain Banks -
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
Sam Elliott
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
Louis Susman -
My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
Pete McCloskey -
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
Warren Rudman -
I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.
Erykah Badu -
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
Blaise Pascal