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Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

— Thomas Hobbes

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  1. To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
  2. :the passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison wit…
  3. :in the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right.
  4. Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
  5. The condition of Man...is a condition of Warre of every one against every one.
  6. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotl…
  7. :Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.
  8. :Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another:

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  • boundaries
  • generosity
  • negotiation

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