Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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I run around with hillbilly girlsThe weekend sits on my hillbilly worldYou better be ready when the sun goes downThat's when country comes to town.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
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Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
