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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#2

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#3

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#4

“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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#5

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

tags: americans, geography, war

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#6

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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#7

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#8

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers

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#9

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inventing-humor

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#10

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

tags: education

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#11

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

tags: starting, working

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#12

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

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#13

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

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#14

“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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#15

“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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#16

“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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#17

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#18

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: hell, resignation

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#19

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: education, humor

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#20

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
― Mark Twain

tags: humorous

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#21

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#22

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth

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#23

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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#24

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

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#25

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

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#26

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

tags: democrats, liberal, politics

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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal, Screening History

tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote

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#28

“I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#29

“Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.”
― Ronald Reagan, Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

tags: humor, operation

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#30

“America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”
― Ronald Reagan

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