Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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We're definitely a better team, everybody can see that by the way we're playing.
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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
