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.
JOHN LOCKELet not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
More John Locke Quotes
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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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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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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