John Locke Quotes
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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My chances of racing in this year's Tour de France are slim to none. That's what got me out of bed every morning.
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You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.
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As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
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The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.
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I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
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It may have come into play, it may not have. But it's the principle. You never compromise those rules. It's very disappointing.
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When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.
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This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.
