Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Abraham Lincoln

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• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
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• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

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• I am surrounded by great people.

  

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• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
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• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
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• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
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• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
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• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

  

  David Copperfield
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• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  

  Walter Wriston
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• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

  

  Leo Varadkar
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• Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
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• The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Action
  • Human Mind