"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
-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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-John Cusack
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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