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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

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.
JOHN LOCKE

Exercise Giving Skills
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
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
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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Liberty Live Men Rules
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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Errors Giving Mistakes
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKE

Business Philosophy War
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful

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