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70What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Alan Alda- 0 0 •
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679Always a whig in politics, and generally on the whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses--I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. Abraham Lincoln- 0 0 •
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653The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and Gen. Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. Abraham Lincoln
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720Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends, for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. Abraham Lincoln
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113When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." Abraham Lincoln
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572My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Alan Alda
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86It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. Alan Alda
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76In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' Alan Alda
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700In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease on the part of the government, whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it. Abraham Lincoln
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536I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that? Alan Alda
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697Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration. Abraham Lincoln
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699Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. Abraham Lincoln
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667Engaged, as I am, in a great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I appreciate the principles of peace, inculcated in this letter, and everywhere, by the Society of Friends. Abraham Lincoln
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673I have desired as sincerely as any man -- I sometimes think more than any other man -- that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood. Abraham Lincoln
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741The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. Abraham Lincoln
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119Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling Abraham Lincoln
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639The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Abraham Lincoln
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644In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. Abraham Lincoln
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