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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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inspirational
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Abraham Lincoln |
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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inspirational
philosophical
politics
religion
religious
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Abraham Lincoln |
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ad89f5a
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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inspirational
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Abraham Lincoln |
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f2c274d
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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inspirational
perseverance
success
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Abraham Lincoln |
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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honesty
inspirational
trust
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Abraham Lincoln |
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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grow
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dignity
discipline
inspirational
self-respect
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Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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inspirational
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Abraham Verghese |
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is cert..
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1862
bereavement
grieving
inspirational
letter-to-fanny-mccullough
mourning
sorrow
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Abraham Lincoln |
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c05eee7
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Achievement has no color
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achievement
inspirational
racism
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Abraham Lincoln |
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4c3bcfb
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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american-presidents
gettysburg-address
inspirational
us-presidents
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Abraham Lincoln |
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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dissent
inspirational
moral-courage
public-opinion
religion
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Abraham Lincoln |
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There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
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trust
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Daniel Abraham |
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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inspirational
political-parties
politics
religion
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Abraham Lincoln |
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this differe..
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death
renewal
seasons
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Daniel Abraham |
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That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.
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Daniel Abraham |
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ac58736
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I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this,"
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Daniel Abraham |
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Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations."
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Daniel Abraham |
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aac2e83
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To lose everything is not the worst that can happen." "It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing."
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Daniel Abraham |
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52f2141
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Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.
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Daniel Abraham |
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e66e1c9
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Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance."
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Daniel Abraham |
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af8316e
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Love,' Asa said, 'is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.' 'How so?' 'Where it lands hasn't got much to do with who deserves it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.' 'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from it's p..
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Daniel Abraham |
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I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it."
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Daniel Abraham |
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Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.
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justice
morality
politics
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Daniel Abraham |
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912db6f
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Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we'd slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don't. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever.
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Daniel Abraham |
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There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.
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Daniel Abraham |
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e33ec06
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Some errors you can only see once you've committed them.
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Daniel Abraham |
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29450dc
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Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.
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Daniel Abraham |
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We did an evil thing, father." "What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible." --
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morality
war
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Daniel Abraham |
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3e09c37
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How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?
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Daniel Abraham |
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Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.
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Daniel Abraham |
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I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance."
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Daniel Abraham |
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We drink to the gods," Amiit said, raising his bowl. "May they never drink to us."
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Daniel Abraham |
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e894d2a
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I've never see God," Yardem said. "But you believe in him," Master Kit said. "I'm reserving judgement."
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Daniel Abraham |
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As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
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Daniel Abraham |
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ba6c91a
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People love their fathers. Their sisters. People love dogs or songs or poems. If I've got to be the champion of something, make it something that doesn't change what it means every time someone says it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.
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Daniel Abraham |
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a1dcef9
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It doesn't matter what you've done or seen. Every man's a child until he's a father. It's the way the world's made.
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Daniel Abraham |
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f0f1b90
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Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.
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Daniel Abraham |
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7d3a83c
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Has it ever struck you people how arrogant you are?" it asked, huge hands taking an attitude of query that bordered on accusation. "You're talking of slaughtering a nation. Thousands of innocent people destroyed, lands made barren, mountains leveled and the sea pulled up over them like a blanket. And you're feeling sorry for yourself that you had to wring a bird's neck as a boy? How can anyone have feelings that delicate and that numbed bot..
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Daniel Abraham |
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I find a certain value in lightness.
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Daniel Abraham |
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3e185db
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Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.
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Daniel Abraham |
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It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn't matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn't care anymore.
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Daniel Abraham |