Abraham Lincoln Quotes
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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I'm curvy.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections...
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
