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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)

He (william Howard Taft) Had Little Patience With The Unconscious Arrogance Of Conscious Wealth And Financial Success.

Sometimes People Will Find Things That Are Wrong. Sometimes They Will Even Find An Approach That You Took Wrong. If You Think You Took The Right Approach, Then You Just Absorb The Criticism, But You Don't Change Your Mind.

Though [abraham Lincoln] Never Would Travel To Europe, He Went With Shakespeare's Kings To Merry England; He Went With Lord Byron Poetry To Spain And Portugal. Literature Allowed Him To Transcend His Surroundings.

One Of The Important Qualities That I Think Is Often Overlooked Is Just Energy. It's Vitality, And Sort Of A Life Force That Some People Have And Others Don't. Probably That Is Connected To A Love Of Whatever It Is That They're Doing. Another Quality That I Think Is Central Is Confidence. Again, Some People Are More Blessed With That Than Others.