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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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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

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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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I write in American slang. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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