Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I won't join another band again.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.
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I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
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When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.
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I just want someone who will love me for me and not judge me for my flaws.
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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
