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

— Blaise Pascal

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People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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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

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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