Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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I am not someone who thinks that a million products will mean that you'll look perfect.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
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One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
