Mark Twain Quotes, Future Quotes, Want Quotes

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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