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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #competition #explore #exploring #fun

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#concern #god #greatest #greatest concern #our

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#confidence #esteem #forfeit #never #once

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#always #any #bear #important #mind

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#anywhere #being #believe #better #existing

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#heaven #hell #neither #nor #purgatory