Abraham Lincoln Quotes
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Religion is always falling apart.
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Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits.
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I really do want people to listen to the music more than watch what I wear. There's time for that later. I've got the rest of my life to dress up and look nice.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
