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Blaise Pascal Quotes

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

Topics

Nature Habit I Am Why First Afraid

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Joe Mays

Universe Place Mortgage Point Where

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Brainy Problem Distance Idealism

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

Andy Dunn

Gun End Entrepreneur Closing Like

Football is a sport I have fun with, but I play it, and that's all. I never watch games and know nothing about what's going on in the sport.

Mauro Icardi

Football Fun Have Fun Play Know

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

Robert Gottlieb

Love Dance Me Year More Everything

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

John Shirley

Myself Man Think Enough Capable

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

Steve Carell

Good Self-Confidence Kind Natural

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

Simon Cowell

Good Job People Me Well Done Look

At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.

Shirley Temple

Dog Love Girl Depression People End

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Roy Barnes

Government Look More First Office

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Lisa Guerrero

Marriage Looking Forward Forward How

When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.

Jason Bateman

Character Quality Control You Film