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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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