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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
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Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.
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Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
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Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.
