#bet

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#arrived #because #better #between #fine

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#heaven #hell #life #only #thing

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#acts #between #causes #desire #force

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#come #discovered #generally #mind #others

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#difference #find #finds #greater #intellect

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

#discover #does #know #least #life

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#always #before #better #bit #check

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between. ↗

— Jason Patric

#far #few #find #getting #i