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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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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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Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake… This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Now Im fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and hows your day, and nothing is changed for me. – Jim Valvano

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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