Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I believe in God.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.
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To be hungry must be awful.
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It is far better to eat moderate amounts of food in all of the food ranges, and to consume smaller portions more often. I realize that your social mores also dictate your eating habits - but four light meals a day will overall serve you very well, and give the body a more steady, regulated nourishment.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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You never have to guess where you stand with me.
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An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
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Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
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Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.
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There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.
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Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.
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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
