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You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#funny #how #i #i am #i remember

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#asian #asian american #community #i #model

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#call #family #i #i think #kid

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#expresses #i #idea #master #slave

I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#come #day #i #prepare #some

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#assure #best #earth #free #freedom

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bees #fighting #hear #him #i