- Benedict Spinoza
(11/24/1632 – 02/21/1677)
Dutch philosopher
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| Died 11/23 | Died 11/24 | Died 11/25 | Death Dates |
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."
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"The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any sane person."
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"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."
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"Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that."
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"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
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| "They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet." |  |
| "It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane." |  |
| "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." |
"So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion-picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise."
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"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
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| "Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everybody who voted for Kennedy or Rockefeller." |  |
"Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
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| "I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive." |  |
| "Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like." |  |
"And if nothing else, I've learned that there are people in life who have a need to sort of bask and reflect in glory or to take credit."
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| "I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be—in order to come up with a good excuse." |  |
| "And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size." |  |
| Born 11/23 | Born 11/24 | Born 11/25 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 11/23 | Died 11/24 | Died 11/25 | Death Dates |