John Locke Quotes

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

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• People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

  

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• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  

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• We shared our father with the world.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

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• Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

  

  Imelda May
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• If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable.

  

  Karen Elson
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• I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

  

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• I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.

  

  Kylie Minogue
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• The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Death
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• In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

  

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• It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • May
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• If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• Powell finishes his answer, admitting much of the information he had been given about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

  

  Keith Olbermann
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• The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

  

  Chester Himes
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• It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

  

  Paul Auster
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• I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

  

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• I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

  

  George Steinbrenner
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• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

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• A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Manner

• Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Unique

• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Liberty
  • Mankind

• Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Genuine
  • Imitation
  • Affectation