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Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."

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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."

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A.E. Samaan

"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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A.E. Samaan

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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A.E. Samaan

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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A.E. Samaan

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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A.E. Samaan

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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A.E. Samaan

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
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"The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well."
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"God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them."
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
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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."
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"My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lecture, or for any other object.As to the other matter you kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. I certainly am flattered, and gratified, that some partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, should be made.Let this be considered confidential."
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."
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"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
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