Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Friend
• Memory
• Deceit

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  Wayne Dyer
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• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

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• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
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• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

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• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
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• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

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  • Great
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• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

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  • Work
  • Dog
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

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  • Always
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• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

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• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

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• But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

  

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• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

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• It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

  

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  

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  • Friends

• Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Purpose
  • Failed

• I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Friend
  • Memory