Baruch Spinoza Quotes
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza
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Wayne Dyer
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Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
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Barry Jenkins
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
Caitlin Moran
I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
Barney Frank
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Amr Waked
A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
James Anthony Froude
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Jay-Z
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Terence McKenna
I would fight to change the policy before the General Election. If I failed then I wouldn't accept office in a Labour Government.
Denis Healey
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza