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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a

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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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. – Thomas Hobbes

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Fear
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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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alone
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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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power
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The Berlin Wall wasnt the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. – Fareed Zakaria

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With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. – George W. Bush

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. – Julius Caesar

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. – Arthur Henderson

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