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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Book Successful Writing
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
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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Dream Philosophical Reflection
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son

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