Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali -
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey -
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
Barbara Demick -
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
Gareth Gates
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
Harold Bloom -
Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
Barack Obama -
What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
Barack Obama -
I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
Patrick Modiano -
Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
Orson Scott Card -
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
E. B. White
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
C. Wright Mills -
'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
C. S. Lewis -
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
Leslie Stephen -
I've always wanted to go to college - I don't know what college - just to explore the world. I want to learn languages - many, multiple languages. And I love to help people, so I think it would be fun to do some nonprofit work.
AnnaSophia Robb -
'Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.'
Willie Nelson
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The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
Heath Ledger -
I don't swim! That's like athletic.
Chloe Sevigny -
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
Robert Frost -
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Abraham Lincoln