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#1

“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.”
― Mark Twain, Roughing It

tags: bible, humor, mark-twain, scripture

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#2

“I said, "Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;”
― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: classic-literature, classics, huck-finn, huckleberry-finn, mark-twain

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#3

“We all stood in the vast theater of ancient Ephesus ... and had our picture taken. ... We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little," Mark Twain reported with his habitual humor.”
― Sabine Arque, The Grand Tour: The Golden Age of Travel

tags: birth-of-tourism, mark-twain, meta-quote, ruin-of-ephesus, travel

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#4

“It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: mark-twain

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#5

“People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

tags: children, controversy, education, idealism, ignorance, knowledge, naivete, politics, reality, religion, school, school-system, sex, teachers, teaching

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#6

“The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur

tags: feelings, naivete, reality

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#7

“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta

tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive

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#8

“The future was coming nearer, one relentless goose step after the next. Juliet could still remember when Hitler had seemed like a harmless clown. No one was amused now. (“The clowns are the dangerous ones,” Perry said.)”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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#9

“Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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#10

“The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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#11

“Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

tags: gender, gender-roles

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#12

“People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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#13

“Sounds naive respecting someone
who doesn't give a shit about you.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: naive, respect

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#14

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty

tags: amorous, amorous-men, beauty, bodies, body, children, corruption, daughters, discover, discovering, falling, female, girls, immaturity, immoral, immorality, lecher, lecherous, love, lust, lustful, manipulate, manipulation, maturity, men, michael-bassey-johnson, naive, puberty, pubescence, scars, sense, senses, sex, sexual-abuse, sexual-intercourse, sexy, vagina, woman, women, woo

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#15

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: belief, childlikeness, children, confidence, cynic, deceit, discernment, faith, fear, fearful, fearless, fearlessness, happiness, heart, honesty, humility, innocence, intuition, judgment, kids, lies, love, naive, optimist, positive, positive-thinking, psychology, pure-heart, purity, reliability, selflessness, skeptic, success, suspicion, trust, trustful, trustworthiness, truth, understanding, understanding-others, vulnerability, zeal

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#16

“Everybody really wanna be the best.
I just wanna be a bit better than them.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: better, naive, the-best, want

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#17

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: acknowledge, acting, blind, catch, detect, discover, dumb, expose, eye-opener, eyes, have-the-last-laugh, hidden-agendas, idiot, in-the-act, naive, nonchalant, play-the-fool, playing-dumb, reveal, see, see-things-as-they-are, spoil, stupid, trap, trick, truth, uncover, unveil

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#18

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

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#19

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: bluffing, confusion

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#20

“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
― Johnny Depp

tags: confusion, humor

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#21

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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#22

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love

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#23

“And, whoa!" He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way!"
Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?"
"Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!"
"My figurine."
"In my game, Mythomagic. And holofoil card, too! And even though you've only got like five hundred attack points and everybody thinks your the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet!"
"Ah." Mr.D seemed truly perplexed, which probably saved my life. "Well, that's...gratifying.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: confusion, dionysus, humor, mythomagic, nico-diangelo

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#24

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

tags: confusion, love, relationships, the-rosie-project

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#25

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
― Salvador Dalí

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#26

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: confusion, monsters, order, pets, tame, wild

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#27

“A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain:
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditched Dean!
She's still Ron's sister.
I'm his best mate!
That'll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He'd hit you.
What if I don't care?
He's your best mate!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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#28

“Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: confusion, dreams, hephaestus, leo

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#29

“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.”
― Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution – The #1 New York Times Bestseller for an Upside-Down Economic World

tags: complexity, confusion, leadership

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#30

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

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