Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
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Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
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I do everything for my family.
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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
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I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.
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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
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The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.
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When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
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I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.
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I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down, and I keep that message throughout. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
