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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#concerned #extraordinary #great #great minds #minds

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#experience #instinct #men #nature #things

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#god #incomprehensible #should

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#doctrine #experiment #generation #mortal #never

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

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First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve. ↗

— George Pataki

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