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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Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'
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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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All truths are bloody truths to me.
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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.
