Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

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• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

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• I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

  

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• I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.

  

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• Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

  

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• Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

  

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• The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

  

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• Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

  

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• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

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• That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

  

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• I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

  

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• In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

  

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• Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

  

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• The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

  

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  • History
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• There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Injustice
  • Profits
  • Wring