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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight ag

A man can seldom — very, very, seldom — fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. – Mark Twain

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. – Mark Twain

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain

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I swam my brains out. – Mark Spitz

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The truth is that most busy people cannot sustain a seven-day-a-week training schedule. There are too many other stresses and responsibilities in their lives. – PattiSue Plumber

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon

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Its all to do with the training: you can do a lot if youre properly trained. – Queen Elizabeth

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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. – Epicurus

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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. – George Tenet

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