Baruch Spinoza Quotes
...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch Spinoza
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Tacitus
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
Tavi Gevinson
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
Walter Gropius
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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I don't know if I'm brave.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
Alan Cumming
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
Jane Austen
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch Spinoza
