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"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
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By John Locke
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"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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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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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."
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"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."
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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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"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."
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"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us."
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"I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts betw"
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
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