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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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Author Profession: Philosopher

Nationality: French

Born: June 19, 1623

Died: August 19, 1662

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Albert Camus, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, Simone Weil, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean de la Bruyere

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