Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. - Thomas Hobbes - Quotesmemo.com

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Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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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.

Authority And Power, Desire, Leviathan, Mankind, Restless

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

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Elaine Pagels

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.

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Nate Silver

Nate Silver

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

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Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

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John of Damascus

John of Damascus

Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

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