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"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

Blaise Pascal· b. 1623View quote →

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🇨🇦Blaise Pascal

Mathematics

1623–1662

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

"A friend of mine suffered from COPD. That's why I wanted to let you know about Inogen, a new way to have oxygen anytime, anywhere. Look into the difference Inogen can make for you."

"Why work alone if you don’t have to? It’s all give and take. It’s all about listening to others and contributing. Even if you didn’t want to act, improv classes are great, because they teach you about conversation."

"I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser."

"Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language."

"It would certainly be better if a writer like Leacock knew always what was best to do and what would look best in the eyes of posterity, but such unnatural foresight cannot be required of any man."

"Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete."

"Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself."

"I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear."

"It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians."

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone."

"The Rock: And I quote: You know your damn role and Shut Your Damn Mouth!"

"We challenge ourselves to try at least four new bizarrities in every week’s groceries."

"Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"Sometimes I love but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life."

"Is the little girl gonna get shot in the face?!"

"Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall."

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🇨🇦Jessica Howell

Literature

"Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together."

"So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it."

"And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty."

"People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know."

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

"While you live … you have a duty to life. … The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. … Otherwise they fade away."

"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."

"It's better to burn out than to fade away."

"Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events — a story — and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow."

"He offered her the world. She said she had her own."

"I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that."

"Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn’t be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans."

"This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning."

"When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. p. 17"

"You will definitely not survive this next bit."

Notable Quotes

"God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love."

— Blaise Pascal, b. 1623View →

"Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity."

— Blaise Pascal, b. 1623View →

"These eight rules contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs."

— Blaise Pascal, b. 1623View →

"If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition."

— Blaise Pascal, b. 1623View →

"There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices."

— Blaise Pascal, b. 1623View →

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