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Alice 2022-04-21 09:01:35
Great compromise!
It may be you are right! But say all we done is show the world that democrary isn't chaos, that there is a great invisible strength in a people's union?
Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere ?
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Eldridge 2022-04-19 09:01:34
Whose justice will be chosen by history
After listening to the "Round Table Party" and talking about the starring role of this film, I came to see it. Two and a half hours of film, I finished it patiently: unlike many commercial blockbusters, this kind of film gives a relatively big stimulation every once in a while, and needs to calm...

Bob Hurley
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Aurore 2022-03-23 09:01:32
if we submit ourselves to law, even submit to losing freedoms, the freedom to oppress, we may discover other freedoms previously unknown to us
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Christiana 2022-04-24 07:01:04
It's so beautiful, it can reach the classical in the post-modern context where individualism is prevalent, which brings tears to the eyes. The lines and performances are so brilliant that they can't be faulted, and the montage is sometimes naughty and sometimes serious, and it's interesting. At the beginning, the black person who can only appear below the neck is a puncture point, a detail that enriches "Lincoln", and is more powerful than many branches. In the end, Lincoln died as a mortal, but it made him more noble: we who are mortals but can't do it, have no excuses.
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[Giving a speech at a dedication, Lincoln stands beside the flagpole, and with great ceremony takes off his hat, removes a piece of paper from inside and unfolds it, then puts on his glasses]
Abraham Lincoln: [reading] The part assigned to me is to raise the flag which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do. And, when up, it shall be for the people to keep it up.
[takes off his glasses and re-folds the paper]
Abraham Lincoln: That's my speech.
[laughter]
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Abraham Lincoln: [greeting a pair of visitors from Jefferson City] I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer who had a parrot that would wake him each morning crying out 'today's the day the world shall end as scripture has foretold'. And one day, the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet I presume, thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy.
[the guests don't laugh]