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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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