Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.
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I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'
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An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
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If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
