Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.
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The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
