Mark Twain Quotes, Science Quotes, Mountain Ranges Quotes

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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