Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes
Quotes to Explore
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
Octavia Spencer
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Karen Mills
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I'm not that interested in people.
Taylor Caldwell
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
Octavia E. Butler
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Rachel Sklar
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord
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Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein
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It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.
Judith Wright
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Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
Charles Best
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes