Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
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Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
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I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.
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Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
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The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"
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Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.
