Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
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• Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  

  Larry Page
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• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
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• Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

  

  Usher
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• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
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• It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
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• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

  

  Bono U2
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• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
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• We feel that the Republican platform presents the best opportunity for the success of minority families. All minority groups seek the same opportunities in the United States that the settlers from Europe did when they came over.

  

  Bill Flores
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• Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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