John Locke Quotes
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I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
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Impossible is nothing.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?
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If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
