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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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