![The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-people-who-visit-the-lincoln-memorial-always-look-like-an-advertisement-for.jpg)
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reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
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reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading long enough
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
warrior space not-afraid
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warrior brave should
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
warrior way accepting
Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
warrior play honor
When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him. Chip Kelly
warrior long fearless
If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before. Chinua Achebe
warrior leader gold
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warrior community police
We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of. Bryan Stevenson
warrior natural
I guess I'm just a natural warrior. Camille Paglia
warrior people enemy
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cowboy artist generations
To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys. Deborah Kass
cowboy player trying
I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players. Charles Haley
cowboy hair long
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. Barry Watson
cowboy gets ridden riding
Man, he gets ridden more than a cowboy riding his horse. David Noel
cowboy man type work
Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon. Travis Fimmel
cowboys encourage fans game listen radio sound turn tv
What we'd like to do is encourage Cowboys fans to turn down the TV sound and listen to our flagship radio station. Just like on game day.
cowboy sound reason
For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman. Demetri Martin
cowboy play california
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