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Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679

Topics

Competition Envy Living Dead Praise

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Path Rich Famous My Own Follow Out

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

Money School Career Investment More

Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say something about another's religion. Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say anything that offends someone.

Religion Constitution Someone Say

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I Am People Thought Sober Office

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Mind Situation Poor Temporary Broke

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Think Thought Language Learn You

There are so many great players who have played for Real Madrid.

Great Real Players Who Madrid Many

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Time Commitment Football You Skill

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.

Family Live Hate Hotel Comfortable

My dad bought me a camera, and I started taking it everywhere with me. I realised how much I was enjoying the whole process - from taking the images to editing them and developing them - and it soon became a complete passion.

Brooklyn Beckham

Passion Me Process Camera Editing

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Strength Weakness Paid Been Ever

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

Time Wish Long Done Project See

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