In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKEIn 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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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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