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Quote by Mark Twain
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. – Mark Twain

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What a wee little part of a persons life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mark Twain

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To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. – Mark Twain

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)

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Conservatism should guide; it usually paralyzes. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. – Ani Difranco

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg

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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

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