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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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
Laura Benanti
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The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.It’s hard to call any of my novels 'fiction.'
Chuck Palahniuk
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As a country, we have confronted and controlled the most common sources of ozone precursors, and our options are few and far between to handle what remains, which is mostly naturally occurring ozone and ozone transported from other countries such as Mexico.
Jim Inhofe
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All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
Michel Gondry
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes