Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.Baruch Spinoza
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S. J. Rozan -
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Victor Pinchuk -
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
Barney Frank -
There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
La India -
It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
Naya Rivera -
I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
Camila Alves
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
Imran Amed -
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
Nadia Comaneci -
I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
Warren G -
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
Francine Pascal -
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes
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I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.
Garrett Camp -
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
Garrett Camp -
'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
Ian Holm -
You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
R. Kelly -
Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
Hans Frank -
To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.
Kaetlyn Osmond
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Dan Barber -
Many of the cannabis producers are very cash rich. They've got the resources to pay a very good wage.
Andrew Morse -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza