"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Swift, Jonathan on vision
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"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking
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"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you."

Shaw, George Bernard on advice
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"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

Landers, Ann on speakers and speaking
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"The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant."

Glancey, Jonathan on finance   

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on popularity
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on listening
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on liberty
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"A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor."

Lincoln, Abraham on law and lawyers   

"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on gambling
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Lincoln, Abraham on laughter
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

Lincoln, Abraham on humor
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on failure
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on faces
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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Lincoln, Abraham on enthusiasm
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same."

Lincoln, Abraham on elections
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."

Limbaugh, Rush on guilt   

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

Vries, Peter De on salvation   

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Lincoln, Abraham on faces
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Lincoln, Abraham on faith
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