Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
