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“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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”

–Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

1102 – “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”

874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

751 – Quote From Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message

691 – “Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.”

504 – “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”

486 – “It’s all about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

324 – “If you want you life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.”

259 – “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

212 – “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”