Abraham Lincoln Quotes
In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
