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Blaise Pascal Quotes: Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
         

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.


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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.



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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.



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Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.



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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.



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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.



Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.



Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.



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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.



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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.



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I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.



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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.



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What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.



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You become what you think. You are what you eat.



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Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.



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You could change into a goat and it would still apply.



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Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.




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