Abraham Lincoln Quotes

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  

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• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
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• My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Family
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• But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Cannot
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• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
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• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
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• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
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• I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
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• The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Right
  • First
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• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Die
  • Body
  • Sick

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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  • Father

• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  

  Bonnell Thornton
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  • Traveling

• Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Destruction
  • Threat

• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
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• We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Constitution

• An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Constitution
  • Slave
  • Inspection