Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
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• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
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• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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  • Different
  • Love

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Scared

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.

  

  Carla Hall
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• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
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• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
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• My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Parents
  • Far
  • Far Away

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
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  • Faith

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • World

• My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • War
  • Fall

• This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • People
  • Business
  • Growing

• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery