Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by … - John Locke

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The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life. '

John Locke

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

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When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

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