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“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.
We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.”
― Eisenhower in War and Peace
― Eisenhower in War and Peace
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
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― Station Eleven
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
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“A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.”
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― Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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