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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Experience, Few, Virtues

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Denis Leary

End, Racism, Son

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
Barack Obama

Stop, Head, Turning

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

Forward, Down, Working

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

Time, Trying, Idea

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Barack Obama

Through, Whole, Miss

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken

Great, Heart, Last

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Paula Deen

Money, Important, Fashion

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

Business, Mind, Trouble

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston

Good, Feeling, Pay

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

Care, Simple, Big

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Forget, Trying

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell

War, Kids, Present

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Bad, Destiny, Management

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

God, Show, Ourselves

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard

Busy, Nothing, Seem

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

Wise, Otherwise

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

Love, Black, Through

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

Books, Library, Left

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
George W. Bush

Texas, Walking, Swagger

Folks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell Lowell

Hate, Understand

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard

Listen, Entertain

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh

Change, Health, Government

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
Arnold H. Glasow

Fair, Share, Yours

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Herman Cain

Change, Time, Hope

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings

Money, Next, Impudence

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle Obama

Health, Care, Him

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