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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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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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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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
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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.
