Abraham Lincoln Quotes
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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Men don't hear women.
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Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
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Why would you want to remake a movie that has endured for more than 25 years?
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He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
