Mark Twain Quotes, Math Quotes, Science Quotes

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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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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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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