Thomas Hobbes Quotes

And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

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• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
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• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
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• You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

  

  Andy Griffith
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• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

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• If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
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• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
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• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  

  Lisa See
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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Believe
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• I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

  

  Cliff Martinez
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• Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

  

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• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  

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• Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

  

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• The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.

  

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• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

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• And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
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  • Ghost
  • Romane Empire