Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Taylor Swift
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
Vance McAllister
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
Barbara Jordan
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
Zac Goldsmith
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
Ted Naifeh
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
Daniel Akaka
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We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.
Wayne Swan
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
Edith Widder
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
O. Henry
