Baruch Spinoza Quotes
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
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Everything was meant to wind people up in Make It Big. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.
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I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.
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Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
