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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
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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.
