Shania Twain quote: "One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question."

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
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Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are ...
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I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
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It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
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My life revolves around my child's routine.
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There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone...
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All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is ab...
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I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life...
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So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
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Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don&#...
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible....
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I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
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I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without l...
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It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emoti...
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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
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Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm her...
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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
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I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doi...
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I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force...
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It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
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I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
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When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to com...
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If it does stand out [my clothing], then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels c...
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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short....
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I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fal...
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Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
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It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
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Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs dow...
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I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their...
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Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'...
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I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
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All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above ...
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible....
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You've got a way with me. Somehow you got me to believe in everything that I could be. I've gotta sa...
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My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to ...
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I am very excited that my music and career will be showcased on XM. Through the years I have always ...
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I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.
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Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
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So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
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I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never ...
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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doi...
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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's ...
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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all t...
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Writing is very much a playground; an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
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I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looki...
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Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't giv...
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I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
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It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from any...
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Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigge...
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous...
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very diff...
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My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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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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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
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When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
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The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
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Say the report is exaggerated.
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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
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To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
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We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
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As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
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Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
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Distance lends enchantment to the view
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Chastity - you can carry it too far
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
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Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
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Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
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Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

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