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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own

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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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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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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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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Compared to America or Europe, God isnt a big part of our lives here. I dont know anyone here who goes to church when hes had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. – Bjork

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Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. – David Deutsch

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Airplane travel is natures way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore

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The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all. – Isaac Asimov

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Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. – George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

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Australia is so cool that its hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago. – Mary-Kate Olsen

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