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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We have a good nucleus returning. Whether that translates into a good team is another question.
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
