#heir

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#call #god #heart #him #kinds

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

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

— John Dos Passos

#choose #engulfed #people #their #them

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #converted #heart #imagination #men

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#badly #draw #minds #more #place

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#establish #ignore #infallibility #men #myth

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. ↗

— George Pataki

#brighter #dream #economic #economic future #families

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. ↗

— George Pataki

#after #anything #appreciation #ever #freedom

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