Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.
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The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.
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The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
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Culture is always about politics in the end.
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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.
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Investors do seem to be comfortable with the Koizumi agenda. The fact that there are ever clearer signs that he is going to be returned is going to provide the yen with support.
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.
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Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
