Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
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Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
