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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Ends
Grasp
Elude
Past
Uncertainty
Attach
Ever
Vast
Drifting
Nothing
Leaves
Sphere
Wavers
Think
Driven
Stays
Fasten
Thinking
Follow
Slips
Eludes
Within
Spheres
Inconstancy
Knowledge
Sail
Vanishes

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