Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.
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When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
