"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#War Quotes #Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.”
“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”
“Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.”
“Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.”
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”

Source : "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.
“Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.”

Source : 1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.
“You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.”
“Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.”

You may also like:

Andrew Johnson
17th U.S. President
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
George Washington
1st U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John Wilkes Booth
Actor
Mary Todd Lincoln
Former First Lady of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President