Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
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When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
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The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
