Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel.... A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I am a very emotional person.
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I don't like being bad at anything.
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I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
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Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
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Hey, is this room out of bounds?
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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
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I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
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Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.
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I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
