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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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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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.
