Thomas Hobbes Quotes
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause.
Quotes to Explore
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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The college students come out and they’re doing something for the first time, so by definition it’s dramatic for the most part, but most people don’t jump out of the airplane or sign up to become a French clown. That’s not the move they’re mostly making. They’re mostly making things a little bit better where they are and so to make things a little better where you are, you really got to get underneath what’s bugging you, what is working for you.
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And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause.
