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Quote by Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right plac

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. – Mark Twain

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Heart
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Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain

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Freedom
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain supposedly observed, Dont pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. Of course, today, he probably would have added, And hairspray by the gallon. – Thomas F. Calcagni

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Media

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West

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Media

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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Media

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. – Akbar S. Ahmed

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Media

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Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. – Dutch Proverb

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Time

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. – Mark Twain

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Food

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Humility

At issue was the question whether this mans faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. – Whittaker Chambers

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Faith