Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.Baruch Spinoza
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Ian Frazier -
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham -
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi -
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
Nancy Gibbs
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Rachel Kushner -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
Manny Pacquiao -
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav -
I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Foster Friess -
You were born as the one you are.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis -
I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
Fetty Wap -
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Edith Stein
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
Tad Williams -
Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
Rachel Nichols -
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
Hanif Kureishi -
It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.
Hans Blix -
Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
Douglas Brinkley -
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.
Baruch Spinoza