Quote by John Locke
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke

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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

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Knowledge
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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke

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Daydreaming
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. – Logan P. Smith

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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. – Calvin Coolidge

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. – Ann Oakley

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Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht

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Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. – Skeet Ulrich

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Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, “How are you?” and no one says How aren’t you? – Rumi

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