#so

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#anybody #anything #ask #been #come

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#concerned #grandfather #grandson #his #i

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#am #american #american people #bet #betting

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#ago #away #cape #died #done

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

#careless #each #fall #fill #into

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges. ↗

— James Lind

#courses #different #end #except #fairer

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#also #courage #essential #foundation #optimism

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#lot #lyrics #melody #other #song

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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