Mark Twain Quotes

All creatures kill-there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.

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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.
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All creatures kill-there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.