"I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me."

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Source : Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

Andrew Johnson

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“Beginning authors often get in their own way â€¦ They forget that theyâ€™ve been telling stories since they could talk. â€¦ The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. Youâ€™ve been doing this your whole life.”
“Whatever the attitude, so is the response.”
“I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.”
“Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.”
“The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elishaâ€™s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.”
“Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson”
“I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.”
“If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.”

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