Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life.
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
