"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
-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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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
-John Locke
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"All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
-John Locke
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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
-Khalil Gibran
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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
-Emily Dickinson
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't."
-Pete Seeger
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
-George Washington
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