Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
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There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
