"I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on dream
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

Lincoln, Abraham on excellence
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"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on agreement   

"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on funerals   

"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on faults   

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on diets and dieting   

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

Lincoln, Abraham on common sense
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."

Lincoln, Abraham on vow   

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on government
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"I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace."

Lincoln, Abraham on horses
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"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

Lincoln, Abraham on lies and lying
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on popularity
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"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Einstein, Albert on research
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"The man of science is a poor philosopher."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."

Einstein, Albert on success
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

Einstein, Albert on taxes and taxation
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"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."

Epictetus on discipline
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

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

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

Epictetus on pleasure
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