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

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Religion
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Mark Twain
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Prison
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Mark Twain
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Other Quotes from
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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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Conformity

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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Conformity

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Conformity

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

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Conformity

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Success can create more madness than happiness. – Billy Ocean

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Happiness

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. – Terri Guillemets

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Society

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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Life

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table – Talk

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History