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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.

John Locke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKE

Communication Current Rude
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
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
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Expression Fashion Suffering
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE

Allow People Tell
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May

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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