Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run. – Abraham Lincoln

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. – Theodore Isaac Rubin

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy. – Denis Waitley

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O! I am fortune’s fool. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israels existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. – John Podhoretz

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Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. – Jacques Prévert

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The whole celebrity culture thing – Im fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. – Anderson Cooper

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