"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.“
-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."
-Thomas Hobbes
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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."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
-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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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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