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| Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Law, without force, is impotent. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The property of power is to protect. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The selective memory isn't selective enough. | Blake Morrison | 1950-, British Poet, Critic |
| What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. | Bliss Carman | 1861-1929, Canadian Poet |
| Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. | Bliss Carman | 1861-1929, Canadian Poet |
| Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. | Bo Jackson | American Baseball and Football Player |
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| We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. | Bo Lozoff | |
| When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. | Bo Schembechler | College Football Coach |
| Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion. | Boardroom Reports | |
| You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line. | Bob Anderson | |
| Whatever you do, don't do it halfway. | Bob Beamon | 1946, American Track Athlete, Long Jump |
| Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed. | Bob Boschert | |
| Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. | Bob Brown | |
| Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. | Bob Dole | 1923-, American Politician, |
| We know [smoking tobacco] is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good. | Bob Dole | 1923-, American Politician, |
| Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
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