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:[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832) | :[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832) | ||
==Søren Aabye Kierkegaard | ==Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862)== | ||
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* Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas. | |||
: ''Haud immemor. Reminiscences of legal and social life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900'' by Charles Stewart. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & sons, 1901 | |||
Also attributed to Admiral Hyman Rickover and to Eleanor Roosevelt, in various forms, including the more pithy | |||
* Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. | |||
==Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813—1855)== | |||
* Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? | * Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? | ||