Mark Twain Quotes
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Nature hates calculators.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.
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They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
