When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe best way to predict your future is to create it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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