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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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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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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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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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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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
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They should legalize pot! Do it! DO IT!
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Oh, for Christ's sake shut up. Obviously the New Democratic Party is not only misinformed but uninterested in the subject.
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If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.
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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.
