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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
The assertion that all men are created equal was of no practical u

The assertion that all men are created equal was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. – Abraham Lincoln

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day
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Abraham Lincoln
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln

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Men
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Abraham Lincoln
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. – Minoru Yamasaki

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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. – Aneurin Bevan

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. – Frederick Douglass

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I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didnt think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right – I did always want to be good. – James McAvoy

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. – Robert Southey

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To talk about a relationship trivializes something thats nobodys business. – Jennifer Aniston

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I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own familys involvement with the armed forces. – Carolyn Murphy

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