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Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.


Dr Robin Lincoln Wood

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ABBEY LINCOLN There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter...
ABBEY LINCOLN It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the tr...
ABBEY LINCOLN I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
ABBEY LINCOLN But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody want...
ABBEY LINCOLN Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay dow...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y...
LINCOLN CHILD I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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