John Locke Quotes
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Nazareth
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I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.
Leon Russell
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Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.
John Ralston Saul
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There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.
Lajos Kossuth
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Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
Ed Parker
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
Garry Winogrand
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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington
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Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.
Edward Leedskalnin
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What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
Benjamin Bloom
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Do you know that I thought you were the most beautiful girl in the world the moment I saw you?
Brenda Novak
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
Helen Keller
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Nazareth
