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.

  

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

  

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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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• 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
  • Work
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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.

  

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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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• I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

  

  Kate del Castillo
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• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
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• What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
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• 'Clearer and nearer still,' cried the Rat joyously. 'Now you must surely hear it! Ah - at last - I see you do!' Breathless and transfixed the Mole stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. He saw the tears on his comrade's cheeks, and bowed his head and understood.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
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• I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

  

  John Woo
  • Action

• The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.

  

  William Burnham Woods
  • Action
  • Direct
  • Remedy

• 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