Mark Twain Quotes

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain

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• India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • India
  • DNA

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Home
  • Christian
  • Born

• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Today
  • Society
  • Better

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • People
  • Today
  • Dreams

• I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Right
  • Fights
  • Prime

• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Slavery
  • Racism

• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Political
  • Perfect

• I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they're there to listen. An American crowd, they're there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.

  

  Luke Combs
  • American
  • Words

• The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Country
  • Transformation

• You need collaboration of its people; it's the only way to improve a company - can you ignore that? You need a win-win for every sub-group, which will ensure exponential growth for a company.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt
  • People
  • Growth
  • Ignore

• Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Gay
  • Disappointment

• For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Problem
  • Christian
  • Christ

• I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Difficult
  • German
  • Spanish

• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Effort
  • Rich

• If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus, we must stop diluting it by focusing on power, peace of mind, and prosperity. Instead, we must embrace the truly radical message that invites us to find life through laying it down. Ironically—if we do this—we’ll actually find the life we’re looking for, unfamiliar as it may be.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Jesus
  • Message
  • Prosperity

• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Prosperity
  • Principle
  • Protector