"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.“
-Thomas Hobbes
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"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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