Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
Quotes to Explore
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Hal Sparks
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
Natalie Massenet
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
Harmon Killebrew
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
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There's so many women that need to be inspired, encouraged to go after their dreams, their goals, their aspirations. Because we all have that champion within us. It really is about your mindset and having the tools that you need, surrounding yourself with the right people, people who have been able to achieve some of the things that you want to achieve.
Laila Ali
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama
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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
Drew Houston
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
Douglas Bader
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
