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#1

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
― John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

tags: defense, knowledge

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#3

“Revolt is the right of the people”
― John Locke

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#4

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”
― John Locke

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“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: books, reading, understanding

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#6

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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#7

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#8

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

tags: arms, bill-of-rights, constitution, evil, freedom, good-and-evil, gun, gun-ammo, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, gunslinger, law, moral, morality, protection, rifle, rifles, right-to-bear-arms, right-to-keep-and-bear-arms, righteous, safety, second-amendment, tyranny

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#9

“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: false, gun-control, out-of-context, tyranny, uncited

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#10

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#11

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#12

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

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#13

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: books, reading

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#14

“We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

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#15

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

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#16

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

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#17

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

tags: strength, worry

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#18

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#19

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

tags: christianity

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#20

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#21

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
― Henry Peter Brougham

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#22

“Education is the process of selling someone on books. ”
― Douglas Wilson

tags: education

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#23

“Nay, Nay! Try thou not.
But do thou or do thou not,
For there is no "try.”
― Ian Doescher

tags: shakespeare, star-wars

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#24

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

tags: christian, christian-living, craftsmanship, work

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#25

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#26

“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
― Dan Rather

tags: elitism, music, scholars, scholarship, snobbery, television

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#27

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?”
― Sathya Sai Baba

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#28

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, life, survival

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#29

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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#30

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze

tags: blaze, curious, dog, humor, incident, mystery, sherlock-holmes, silver

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