"It would be pleasant to believe that some of Lincoln's DNA is actively swimming around in somebody's soup, but all the evidence is against it. And of course, there's always the risk that what we might get would be more Robert Todd Lincoln than Abraham Lincoln."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Allen C. Guelzo

#Believe Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.”
“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.81, The New Press
“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.”
“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
“A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.”
“I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.”
“It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.”

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