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2845 quotesOf all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Heaven
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Things and Little Things
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Action
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Books - Reading
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Prophecy
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Influence
Gerald F. Lieberman
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Fear
Abraham Lincoln
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Commonplace
Abraham Lincoln
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Freedom
Abraham Lincoln
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Ambition
Abraham Lincoln
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Faces
Abraham Lincoln
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Humankind
Abraham Lincoln
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He 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 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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun