Baruch Spinoza Quotes
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives.
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In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.