"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today."

-- David Herbert Donald

#Presidential Quotes #Today Quotes #Not Sure Quotes

“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
“Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.54, Random House
“When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.”
“Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.”
“Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.”
“Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.”
“A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.”
“If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?”

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