Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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What I remember about the experience is that if you went to go see 'Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
