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| You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| ...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Whatever you are, be a good one. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. |
General George Patton |
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| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. |
Emile Zola |
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| When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. |
Bernard Bailey |
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| They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them. |
Laurence Binyen |
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| Through struggle to the stars. |
Motto of the Mulvany family |
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| Happy I'm stupid. You're smart. I was wrong. You were right. You're the best. I'm the wrost. You're very good-looking. I'm not very attractive. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy You know my girlfriend is dead. She fell off a cliff and died on impact. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant. Probably a great golfer. Huge ass. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Nursing Home Orderly You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy The price is wrong, bitch. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy Son of a bitch ball. Why can't you go home Aren't you good enough for your home Answer me. Suck my white ass ball. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| Happy If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass. |
Happy Gilmore |
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| The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life. |
W. Edward Brown |
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| Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. |
Mao Tse Tung |
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| Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. |
Mao Tse Tung |
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| Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. |
Hesiod |
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| Even though it's hard, it's easy. |
Hesiod |
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| Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. |
Hesiod |
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| If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great. |
Hesiod |
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| We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. |
Hesiod |
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| He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. |
Hesiod |
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| The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. |
Hesiod |
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| Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. |
Hesiod |
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| Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. |
Hesiod |
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| It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. |
Hesiod |
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| Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. |
Hesiod |
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| He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. |
Hesiod |
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| Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. |
Hesiod |
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| A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. |
Hesiod |
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| The law is sic a ass - a idiot. |
Charles Dickens |
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| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
Charles Dickens |
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| If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. |
Charles Dickens |
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| In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. |
Charles Dickens |
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| A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world |
Charles Dickens |
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