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 order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.
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Weight training keeps you fit and helps build your strength.
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
