Mark Twain Quotes, Animal Quotes, Oxygen Quotes

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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