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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and

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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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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Fear
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Thomas Hobbes
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The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. – Thomas Hobbes

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Nature
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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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Death
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. – Tennessee Williams, “The Rose Tattoo”

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Death

Be happy while youre living, for youre a long time dead. – Scottish Proverb

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Death

I stay way from that area, and theres only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. – Peter Steele

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Death

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that – rather than just think about it – its crucial that you do today what you want to do. – Robin Gibb

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Death

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They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. – Michael N. Castle

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I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesnt do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him. – Trevor Rabin

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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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Knowledge