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Mark Twain

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If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
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DAVE HOLLINGSWORTH
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
NAT KING COLE
You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's n...
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Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS
A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life.
AMAN JASSAL
Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost
MICHAEL STRONG
Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light
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Wisdom is a gift.The mind is its home
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If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG
Covering the truth is placing blindfolds over the eyes of christ
MICHAEL STRONG
Surprises always await for those with the energy and curiosity to look; so always look. Stay surpris...
GARRY FITCHETT
Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.
MICHAEL STRONG
Mistakes unviels our individual flaws that blocks our paths to perfection
MICHAEL STRONG
The only mystery that realy needs to be discovered is the one within us
MICHAEL STRONG
When a man endures suffering he endures something greater than himself
MICHAEL STRONG
Its human to error no one is immune to it
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We started playing basketball when we were in second grade. We're friends, except when we're on the ...
ANDREW SELLE
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS
I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
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When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH")
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
He's a great guy and a good leader, and I'm trying to learn from him.
TIM TEBOW
Mark Twain.
FRIENDS
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
RUDYARD KIPLING
As machines learn they will do the one thing that man hasn't.
And...that's learn!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is ...
AUBERON HERBERT
Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he’d bestowed on him yet. “You talked her into going with...
JEANIENE FROST
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FRANK VAVALA
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
We have been in the process in the last four years planning for a hotel that will be at the west end...
MARSHALL WORDEN
If you don't challenge yourself to the max you will never be great. I think they will learn a lot fr...
ANTOINE SMITH
[Pitter] is a four-year player. He's becoming more of a leader. He's now doing what is expected of h...
ED GRIFFIN
too much morality, too little sense.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
[talking about his new wife, Laura]
Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope s...
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Fiona: Where's Gareth?
Matthew: Torturing Americans.
Fiona: How thoughtful of him.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Tom: The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
JEAN KERR
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CRAIG NALL
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE
When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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If only education will aim at teaching learners’ real life and life in books and not just books, l...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Eight seeds is probably the furthest away from going down, and its not going in front of the board s...
DAMANI J. LEECH
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
It was a great opportunity (for him) to learn the lumber business from the ground up.
CHARLES LARRICK
I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS
I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God s...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER
Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling enviro...
GENE ROYER
Recognizing their song is a great diagnostic, but it's difficult to learn. I've been trying for year...
BRIAN SHOVERS
When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to cons...
RAY BRADBURY
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
CERVANTES
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Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in th...
SUN YAT-SEN
We die a day at a time
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK
But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
MARK TWAIN
Of course I am here to learn and develop too. It will be a great challenge for me and I like that.
LOTHAR MATTHAEUS
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
ERALDO BANOVAC
[March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music.
BILL HARLEY
Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tir...
XAVIER RUDD
It has been a great opportunity to learn improvisational skills and to learn how to really please an...
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN