Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property – acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Window

• I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

  

  Tamala Jones
  • True
  • Girl
  • Favorite

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Experienced

• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Sense
  • Will

• Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sense
  • Equal
  • Exertion

• I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.

  

  Rich Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Respect
  • Talent
  • I Love

• The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

  

  Václav Hlavatý
  • Faith
  • Left
  • Explanation

• When you are intimate with the person you love, you create unlimited possibilities for the growth of your relationship. Intimacy has the potential for lifting the two of you out of the lonely world of separateness and into the stratosphere of emotional oneness. Conversely, the number one enemy of any marriage is the lack of intimacy. If two people do not know each other deeply, they can never become what the Bible calls ‘one flesh.

  

  Neil Clark Warren
  • Relationship
  • Intimacy
  • Possibilities

• I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.

  

  Steven Strait
  • Choose
  • Opportunities
  • Fortunate

• In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property – acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sense
  • Property
  • Slaves