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#1

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#3

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-bible

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#4

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion

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#5

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#6

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: courage

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#7

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#8

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#9

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs, heaven

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#10

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake

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#11

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: definitions, forgiveness

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#12

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#13

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

tags: cats, lesson

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#14

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity

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#15

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation

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#16

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

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#17

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

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#18

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage

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#19

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

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#20

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-children

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#21

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#22

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
― Mark Twain

tags: politics

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#23

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, success

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#24

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

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#25

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honors

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#26

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#27

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#28

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
― Mark Twain

tags: laughter

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#29

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
― Mark Twain

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#30

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor, memory

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