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

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"What worries you masters you."

- John Locke

Awareness

"What worries you, masters you."

- John Locke

Awareness

"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."

- John Locke

Responsibility

"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."

- John Locke

Education

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

- John Locke

Self-improvement

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge