#hen

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

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

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#i #i think #now #really #substantial

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#firm #place #put #right #right place

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#arguing #feel #hear #him #i

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#could #first #how #judge #know

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#aroused #compromise #done #i #interest

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#biological #biological weapons #case #chemical #common

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#certainly #country #cover #get #i

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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