"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.“
-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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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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