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Thomas Hobbes

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

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Amber Hurdle

"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."

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Amber Hurdle

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

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Amber Hurdle

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

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Amber Hurdle

"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."

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Amber Hurdle

"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."

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Amber Hurdle

"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals."

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Amber Hurdle

"Disunion by force is treason."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."

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Amber Hurdle

"Right reason is stronger than force."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
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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."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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