Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
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There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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You can look good. Don't let nobody tell you you can't look good because of your size... or what size your feet is.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
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Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?
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Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?
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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
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Carving a sculpture in wood is such a sensual pleasure when blow by blow the figure grows more and more from the trunk.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
