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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.


Blaise Pascal


#discovered #found #more #others #people

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

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

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.


George S. Patton


#cynical #discover #lack #often #people

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.


Walter Pater


#attitude #before #brilliancy #day #discriminate

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?


Alan Perlis


#anything #bubble #discarded #else #like

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.


Alan Perlis


#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.


Saul Perlmutter


#chance #discovered #exciting #exciting thing #fundamental

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.


Saul Perlmutter


#kind #resonates

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.


Charles Perrault


#bright #brothers #child #discreet #drudge






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