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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain |
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Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
-- Mark Twain |
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
-- Mark Twain |
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain |
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There is a certain charm in the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
-- Mark Twain |
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Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-- Mark Twain |
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
-- Mark Twain |
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain |
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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
-- Martin Luther King |
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King |
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King |
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
-- Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Once at a national parade, Charles de Gaulle said to Lazaro Cardenas (former president of Mexico), 'Do the Mexicans really love you Mister President?'. Cardenas replied, 'Of course Mister President.' And with a sad face De Gaulle said 'It's a shame, the French only need me.'
-- Mauricio Gonzalez de la Garza |
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I don't intend to leave my name in the pages of history. I shall be satisfied in people's memory.
-- Michael Alexander |
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I'm not Jacko, I'm Jackson... 'Wacko Jacko' - Where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me, it's not nice.
-- Michael Jackson |
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