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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quote: "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole—the whole is no longer a whole. Friedrich Nietzsche
Publilius Syrus quote: "It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus
As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment. Spencer Bachus
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
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I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation. Heather Wilson
If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation. Paul Ryan
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The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. Paula Poundstone
I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.' Dannii Minogue
Norton Juster quote: "So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're..."
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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. Norman Lear
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. Fred Rogers
She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as if love were a steel grinder that Fates could not snip through. She also believed that the moment you relaxed your guard, the moment you were anything less than ferocious in your keeping, that was the moment it could all be snatched away. Jodi Picoult
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. John Hickenlooper
Amy Heckerling quote: "Bitterness is so ugly."
Bitterness is so ugly. Amy Heckerling