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You really can encourage people to behave in certain ways. But if we have plans that depend on human behavior, they ought to be realistic.


Baruch Fischhoff

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BARUCH SPINOZA Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
BARUCH SPINOZA Desire is the very essence of man.
BARUCH SPINOZA So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; ...
BARUCH SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BARUCH SPINOZA Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
BARUCH SPINOZA Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
BARUCH SPINOZA True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
BARUCH SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be ...
BERNARD M. BARUCH There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD M. BARUCH