#own

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#astonished #be true #because #cease #does

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#alone #determined #exists #free #itself

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#attitude #changing #comeback #done #enthusiastically

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#better #fact #known #than #unknown

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#better #deal #depot #fail #get

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#i #lot #mind #own #records

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#desire #down #face #go #hard

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#applicable #been #enormous #exemption #garner

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#down #heavier #i #inch #liked

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank