Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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People trash talk me.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.
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As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Coach Graham use to ride me hard . . . 'you're doing it all wrong! Go back! Do it again!' An assistant coach muttered that it was a good thing Coach Graham rode me hard, because 'when you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
