Quote by Blaise Pascal
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers. – Niklaus Wirth

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Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. – Roh Moo-hyun

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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. – Margaret Cho

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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out whats unsustainable in their communities. Thats the future. – Ian Somerhalder

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Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. – Stanislaw Lec

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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