"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."

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Source : Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

Thomas Hobbes

#Life Quotes #Nature Quotes #Men Quotes

“On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

Source : "Science and Hypothesis". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: "Hypotheses in Physics", 1913.
“A lot can happen [ because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.”
“If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.”
“So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.”
“Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.”
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”
“Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.”
“When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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