Mark Twain Quotes
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Quotes to Explore
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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Barack Obama is an economic patriot.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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I am quite a private person.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
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...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).
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Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
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As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.
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If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
