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Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original…
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The world is governed by opinion.
— Thomas Hobbes
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles…
— Nichiren
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
— Jose Saramago
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as…
— Daniel Webster
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if…
— Walter Kaufmann
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