Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.Abraham Lincoln
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
Ingrid Newkirk -
My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril -
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham -
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis -
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel -
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
Francesca Annis -
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
Karen Handel -
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna -
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell -
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde -
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman -
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
Nancy Reagan
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By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
Marlee Matlin -
I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.
Eric Holder -
When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
Kurt Busiek -
I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.
Paul Auster -
True eloquence scorns eloquence.
Blaise Pascal -
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.
Abraham Lincoln