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Quote by Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The ra

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes

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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. – Dan Savage

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I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And its like, she didnt care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot. – Britney Spears

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck

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