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“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving free men.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: 1832-1858 Volume 1

“Always be wary of quotes on the internet.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon?--Never!”
― Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings

“Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us?”
― Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings

“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame, erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction”
― Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings

“It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
― Julius Caesar

“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
― Albert Einstein