Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
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Thoughts are things. Everything you do or think is a cause set in motion. Every thought sent forth is a never-ending vibration spiraling its way across the universe and returning to us what we have sent with interest.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
