Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
