Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
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Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
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I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)
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Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
