"I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life."

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Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

Eric Foner

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“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

Source : "The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”

Source : "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.
“Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.”
“What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and then tell the congregation that God has done all He can to save them, and the matter rests with them, whether they will be saved or not?...if God has done all He can, why pray for Him do more? And if He has not done all He can, why tell the people He has?”
“Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.”

Source : Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“We don't have all the answers ... as we get older, our bodies need repair.”
“Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.”
“She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.”

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