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Mark Twain Quotes

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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Live Humor Teach Preach Forever

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Jimmy Carl Black

Mother Words People Me Feel Doing

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Work Myself Me Lonely Trying Find

What's amazing is how rock n' roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n' roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.

Music Power New Things Losing People

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Excellence Fighting Enemy Resistance

We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.

World Fans Tour Owe Around

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

Time Me Year You Find Accountant

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Name Know Company Got Because Like

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

Joshua Waitzkin

Business Truth Eye Truth Is Chess

I'm not going to worry about the critics until some of my peers start saying I'm a softie.

Start Saying Worry Critics Going

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.

Budget Way Real Make Part Main

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

Competition Me Enjoy Long Lost Know

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Pope Benedict XVI

Attitude Faith Today Wind Church

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