Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Where
  • Chosen
  • Exactly

• I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Publish

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Man
  • Nice

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Prison

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Quality
  • Human
  • Creativity

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • She
  • Think
  • Crazy

• Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opposition
  • Other
  • Blinds

• Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • History
  • Progress
  • Search

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

  

  Bruno Latour
  • Work
  • Society
  • Science

• Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Progress
  • Legislation