Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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It worked!
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
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I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
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In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
