Mark Twain Quotes
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
Kaley Cuoco
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
Nancy Roman
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My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
Ted Yoho
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
Aaron Patzer
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That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tavis Smiley
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Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
Langhorne Slim
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Only the dead are free of the influence of others.
Karl Schroeder
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I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.
Luther Strange
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Carl Van Vechten
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I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home!
Christina Aguilera
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
Laura Moser
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The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.
Dahlia Lithwick
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
