"We should have a great fewer disputes in……" — John Locke
"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
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74 Quotes by John Locke
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to…
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and…
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for…
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around…
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause…
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom…
— James Buchanan
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
— James Buchanan
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who…
— Samuel Butler
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
— Dalai Lama
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this,…
— Unknown Author
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
— Alexander Pope
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