Mark Twain Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
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Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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I don't have to be what you want me to be.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
