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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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