Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
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The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.
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I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
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We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.
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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.
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The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
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Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
