I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
JOHN LOCKESuccess in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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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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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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