Mark Twain Quotes, Biblical Quotes, Discovery Quotes

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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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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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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