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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And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
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Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.
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I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
