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Geological time is not money.

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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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