Mark Twain Quotes
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
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I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory. It is part of me... it is something I cannot alter.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
