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.
Ingrid Newkirk -
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.
Patch Adams -
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose -
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.
Zoe Kravitz -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Barry Levinson -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
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.
Daniel Berrigan -
I'm not a big sports fan.
Harlan Coben -
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.
Forest Whitaker
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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.
Eden Hazard -
My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
Samantha Morton -
I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
Rachel Bloom -
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.
Naomi Benaron -
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
Octavian Paler -
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
Patrick Stewart -
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Warren Farrell -
For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
Olivia Colman -
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
Baruch Spinoza