Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.Baruch Spinoza
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece -
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks -
My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
Nargis Fakhri -
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
Irving Kirsch -
I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
Laura Innes -
I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
Bassem Youssef -
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
Sam Neill
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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
Nahum Goldmann -
There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
James Mattis -
The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.
Jaimoe -
The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.
Mary Shelley -
My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
Jerry Moran -
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
Baruch Spinoza