John Locke Quotes
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
