John Locke Quotes

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
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  • Parents
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• I don't drink hot beverages.

  

  Gary Cohn
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• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

  

  Ione Skye
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• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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  • Writing
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• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
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  • Woman

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
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  • Got

• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
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  • Fortune

• I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
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  • Space

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Forever

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • School
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• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• My friend, singer Kaya Jones of the Pussycat Dolls, told me she could finally come out of the closet and wear her Trump 2016 campaign shirt.

  

  Joy Villa
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  • Shirt

• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Science

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Different
  • Law

• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Understanding
  • Ideas
  • Reflection