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With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#attendance #attention #battle #else #everybody

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. ↗

— Maya Lin

#against #antisocial #failed #fundamentally #i

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#consideration #could #deserves #existed #first

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#end #in the end #life #years #your

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best friend #book #books #friend #get

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #believer #bring #crisis #depended

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #destroying #friends #i #make