"The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas."

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Baruch Spinoza

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“To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.”
“The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.”
“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.”

Source : Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1
“I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.”
“Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.”
“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”
“I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.”
“People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.”

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