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• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
  -- John Locke...
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge
  it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke...
• Words and ideas are what change our world.
• The thoughts that come unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
  -- John Locke...
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot.
• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. -- K. Trou
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margoliu...