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Quote by Mark Twain
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

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

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. – Mark Twain

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Eating
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit

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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. – Peter Marshall

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. – Andy Rooney

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Im a role model now. I didnt know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so Ive tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls dont want me to be Miley Cyrus, either. – Nicki Minaj

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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