Mark Twain Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Character Quotes

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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