Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
