#read

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#majority #occupies #own #soil #their

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #getting #going #him #i

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #attacks #business #closed #i

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#how #live #ready #then #you

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country. ↗

— Eric Liu

#attain #build #citizens #citizenship #country

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#bible #book #chiefly #divine #necessary

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#books #boyfriend #comes #eat #everybody

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#back #college #find #go #i