Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Baruch Spinoza

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
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• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
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• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
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• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • School
  • Team
  • Chess

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Understand
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• The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Real
  • Government
  • Down

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Change
  • Revolution
  • Determination

• I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Good
  • Nice
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• Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Why
  • Society
  • Political

• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  

  George Eliot
  • Heart
  • Friend
  • Kindness

• I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • Mind

• She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Lines
  • Beyond

• Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Force
  • Conquered