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
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  1. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  2. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  3. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

  4. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

  5. Whatever you are, be a good one.

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