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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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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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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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.
