Thomas Hobbes Quotes

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

Thomas Hobbes

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• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
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• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

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• My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

  

  Caroline Sunshine
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• I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

  

  Bill Plympton
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• When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
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• A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

  

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• I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.

  

  Brad Schneider
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• Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

  

  Ed Parker
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• The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone...

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

  

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• A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

  

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• Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

  

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• I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

  

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

  

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• That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

  

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• But you need to straddle the line, I think.

  

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• On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

  

  Edward Lazear
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• We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

  

  Nellie Melba
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• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Account
  • Absurdity
  • Nature Reason