Blaise Pascal Quotes
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do you acknowledge their being by giving them your full attention, or are you reducing them to a means to an end, a mere function or role. What is the quality of your relationship with the cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?
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Lookin' so innocent,I might believe you if I didn't know.Could'a loved you all my life,If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.And you got your share of secrets,And I'm tired of being last to know.And now you're asking me to listen'Cause it's worked each time before.
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By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
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I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.
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Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
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Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
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People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
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I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.
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I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
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The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.