Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Church Service Quotes, Interesting Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

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Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

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I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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In war, truth is often the first casualty.

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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Oliver Twist has asked for more!

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The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

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We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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