Mark Twain Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
F. Gary Gray
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I'm definitely post-something.
Salman Rushdie
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain
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We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
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I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Nelson Goodman
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
Robert Walpole
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain