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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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What worries you, masters you.
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The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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