John Locke Quotes
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
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The due of honor in no point omit.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
