Abraham Lincoln Quotes

All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.

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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.
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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
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What is most unconscionable is that there is not a shred of evidence to justify the certain loss of life. Do the generalized threats and half-truths of this administration give any one of us in Congress the confidence to tell a mother or father or family that the loss of their child or loved one was in the name of a just cause?
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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
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Put variety in white.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.