John Locke Quotes
Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
Quotes to Explore
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Cameras intrigued me.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
