Abraham Lincoln Quotes
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Tea Obreht -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
Cameron van der Burgh -
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
Tavi Gevinson -
I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
J. J. Watt -
Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
Mamata Banerjee -
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
Ted Sarandos -
I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
Zach Braff
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo -
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright -
It should not be the government running the economy.
Quico Canseco -
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
Fergus Henderson -
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
Damien Chazelle -
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin -
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
Dale E. Turner -
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
William Merritt Chase -
I don't have any personal grudge against Vince Russo, but I just know watching the shows that all his shows look the same.
Bret Hart -
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.
Abraham Lincoln