Baruch Spinoza Quotes

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Baruch Spinoza

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• Fame
• Riches

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• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

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• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

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• I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

  

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• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

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• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

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• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

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• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

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• If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

  

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• I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

  

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• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  

  Gary Neville
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• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

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• I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

  

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• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

  

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• I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

  

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• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

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• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

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• I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

  

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• There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

  

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• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

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• Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

  

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• For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

  

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• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pleasure
  • Fame
  • Riches