"I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln."

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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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“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”
“I don't want to have a good fight, I don't want to have an exciting fight, I want to have a finish.”
“It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.”
“No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.”
“I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.”
“I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”
“God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.”

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