Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. – 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 exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right. – Abraham Lincoln

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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. – Rick Danko

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Elie Wiesel

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. – Soren Kierkegaard

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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time. – Don Zimmer

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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. – Henry David Thoreau

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I wasnt looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world. – Giada De Laurentiis

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Theres a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well. – Linda M. Godwin

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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. – Bible

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