John Locke Quotes
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
Quotes to Explore
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
