... , the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others ... you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau Dreams surely are difficult, confus...

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... . With Lee's surrender, all facts project that this Civil War may finally be over. LINCOLN ASSASSINATED!!! On April 14th, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning from the wound. Booth escaped ... suspected accomplices have been detained for questioning. Our nation is shocked by this news Lincoln was seated in a private box above the stage with his wife Mary, an officer named Henry Rathb...

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... nations have problems with the president. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending a special performance comedy name "Our American Cousin". He was in Ford's Theater with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln when it all happened. An officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone and his fiancée also accompanied him. Then an actor John Wilkes Booth got inside the presidential box and assassinated Lincoln. Booth ... ...

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