Baruch Spinoza Quotes
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
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I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
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And I started it all. I threw the home-run ball.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
