John Locke Quotes
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
