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Were it not for my little jok...

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Both parties deprecated war; ...

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

It is not the qualified voter...

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Tangible language, which ofte...

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I have always wanted to deal ...

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

The leading rule for the lawy...

The 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 1446 quotes

I happen temporarily to occup...

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

If 600,000 people have to die...

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I always [or "often"] walk sl...

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

The Cause of civil liberty mu...

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

If the good people in their w...

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

If there is anything which it...

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

The greatest fine art of the ...

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

You are ambitious, which, wit...

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

But, slavery is good for some...

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

If ever this free people, if ...

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I hold that if the Almighty h...

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

It is safe to assert that no ...

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

That we we here highly resolv...

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I have just read your dispatc...

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....