Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
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We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
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Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States.
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The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
