Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
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  • Long

• 'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Person
  • First
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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
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• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
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• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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  • Being
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• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
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• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
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• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • American
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  • Pie

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
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• Everyone connects differently with different things.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
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• He was a very smart, key young person who helped us get production to work in all parts of the country.

  

  Allen Neuharth
  • Work
  • Country
  • Smart

• When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Body
  • Weight
  • Underwear

• I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

  

  Peter Beard
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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • World
  • House
  • Strong

• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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