Mark Twain Quotes

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.

Jennifer Coolidge

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When I first travelled to New York in 1982 on a summer holiday as a student, I remember thinking how exciting it was, how energising it felt, and also how it felt dangerous - it was a place where you could make a wrong turn, either geographically or just in a human interaction, and suddenly find yourself in trouble.

John Lanchester

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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

John Stossel

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To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Mary Barnett Gilson

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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

Jason Marsden

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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

David Thibodeau

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Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Chris Chocola

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I'm a 12-handicap.

Colin Jost

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Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.

Brian L. Roberts

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We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.

Asma Jahangir

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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

Arthur Hertzberg

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