Mark Twain Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler -
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross -
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 -
I'm definitely post-something.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
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 -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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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.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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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 am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
Muhammad Ali -
If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.
Bernard Lonergan -
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
John Tillotson -
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
William Shakespeare -
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.
Sarah Dessen -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain