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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.


Abraham Flexner

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ABRAHAM COWLEY Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEY His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, an...
ABRAHAM CLARK As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War ...
ABRAHAM CLARK If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
ABRAHAM CAHAN You must never tire fighting Satan.
ABRAHAM CAHAN What is wealth? A dream of fools.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probab...
ABRAHAM CAHAN If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
ABRAHAM CAHAN Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
ABRAHAM CAHAN I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
ABRAHAM CAHAN Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
ABRAHAM CAHAN The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
ABRAHAM CAHAN There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN