Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
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When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
