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Lactantius (2)
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
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Imre Lakatos (2)
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
32 wisdom & wit about positive
Hedy Lamarr (14)
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
249 wisdom & wit relating to aging
Corliss Lamont (2)
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
199 quotes about freedom
Joseph Lancaster (2)
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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Michael Landon (5)
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
87 quotes about family
Walter Savage Landor (9)
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
249 quotes about aging
Tom Landry (3)
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
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Walter Lang (2)
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
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Lillie Langtry (6)
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
249 thoughts regarding aging
Ring Lardner (3)
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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Christopher Lasch (20)
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette (2)
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater (6)
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
233 quotes about being alone
Stephen Leacock (8)
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
423 views about greatness
Timothy Leary (6)
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
175 views regarding change
Robert E. Lee (11)
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
210 quotes relating to education
Bruce Lee (11)
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
161 quotes regarding courage
Vivien Leigh (5)
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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Vladimir Lenin (14)
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Aldo Leopold (4)
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
218 quotes relating to beauty
Max Lerner (5)
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
249 views relating to aging
Sam Levenson (3)
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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George Henry Lewes (9)
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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Sinclair Lewis (6)
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
249 thoughts about aging
Joe E. Lewis (5)
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
19 quotes about diets
C. S. Lewis (25)
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
249 quotes regarding aging
Roy Lichtenstein (2)
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
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Karl Liebknecht (4)
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
233 quotes about being alone
A. J. Liebling (4)
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (7)
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
142 quotes regarding failure
Abraham Lincoln (47)
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Charles Lindbergh (6)
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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Walter Lippmann (8)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Franz Liszt (4)
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
233 sayings about being alone
David Livingstone (3)
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
240 thoughts about faith
John Locke (15)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Henry Cabot Lodge (3)
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
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Vince Lombardi (16)
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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Jack London (2)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (26)
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
425 quotes about art
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (3)
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
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Adolf Loos (4)
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Audre Lorde (9)
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
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Konrad Lorenz (2)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik (2)
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
174 wisdom & wit relating to experience
Christopher Love (2)
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
87 quotes regarding family
H. P. Lovecraft (6)
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
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Juliette Gordon Low (2)
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
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Amy Lowell (5)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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James Russell Lowell (24)
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Clare Boothe Luce (11)
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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Martin Luther (32)
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
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Rosa Luxemburg (4)
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
199 quotes regarding freedom
Robert Staughton Lynd (5)
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
24 quotes regarding birthday
Robert Wilson Lynd (2)
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
420 wisdom & wit about nature
Paul Lynde (8)
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
323 sayings about death