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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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.
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Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
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I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
