Baruch Spinoza Quotes
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
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Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
