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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

John Locke

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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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Children Parent Water
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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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Ideas Mind Signification Use
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation

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