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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
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The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), "The Leviathan"
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

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