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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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What worries you, masters 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 all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it
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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
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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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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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