Mark Twain Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
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I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
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The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
