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You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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

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