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2913 quotesHe can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Communication
Abraham Lincoln
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
Friends and Friendship
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Self-improvement
Abraham Lincoln
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
Persuasion
Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Power
Abraham Lincoln
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Lies and Lying
Abraham Lincoln
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Democracy
Abraham Lincoln
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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Appearance
Abraham Lincoln
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Books - Reading
Abraham Lincoln
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Control
Abraham Lincoln
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Enthusiasm
Abraham Lincoln
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Names
Vachel Lindsay
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
Desire
Walter Lippmann
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Belief
Walter Lippmann
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Humanism
Walter Lippmann
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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Critics and Criticism
Lynn M. Little
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Ability
Titus Livy
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
self-esteem
John Locke
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Teachers and Teaching
John Locke
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Experience
John Locke
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
Morality
John Locke
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Language is the inventory of human experience.
Language
L. W. Lockhart
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Character
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
Arts and Artists
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun