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They have margins of maneuver which they have to use tactically to the maximum of their capacities. The question is: when do they show their hand.


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BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
BLAISE PASCAL Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...
BLAISE PASCAL Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
BLAISE PASCAL Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend...
BLAISE PASCAL All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d...
BLAISE PASCAL I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L....
PEDRO PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
BLAISE PASCAL Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...
BLAISE PASCAL Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
BLAISE PASCAL In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
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