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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning th

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain

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Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain

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I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain

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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. – Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. – Al McGuire

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What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. – Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath

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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. – Thomas Jefferson

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I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. – Evel Knievel

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. – G. K. Chesterton

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