Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.Thomas Hobbes
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
Rainey Qualley -
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
Wavy Gravy -
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance -
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
Karin Slaughter -
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
R. Kelly
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
Garth Hudson -
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
Charles Hodge -
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.
Thomas Hobbes