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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questio

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

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John Locke
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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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Freedom
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. – Vanessa Marcil

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson

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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. – Peter Fenn

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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

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Music is the poetry of the air. – Richter

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