Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln
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We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
Alec Waugh
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
Andy Rooney
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
Alistair Cooke
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
Allen Iverson
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
Ben Bernanke
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Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.
Sandra Bullock
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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
Aziz Ansari
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln