Baruch Spinoza Quotes
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I feel like with YouTube, I never had the “make it” mentality. I think it’s about connecting and having fun. I started so that it didn’t matter where you lived; you could just hear me sing.
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What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
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I love you, Julie. I loved you that first moment when I looked across the restauraunt and found you. Then you were the loveliest thing I'd ever seen; but now I've discovered how much more you are; loyal and courageous and as true as steel. There's laughter in you and a capacity to love. Julie, Julie, could you learn to love me?
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
