"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Twain, Mark on smile
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"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

Twain, Mark on speakers and speaking
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on training   

"It is easier to stay out than get out."

Twain, Mark on temptation
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Twain, Mark on cheerfulness
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"Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to."

Twain, Mark on blush
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."

Twain, Mark on success
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hell
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on joy
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

King Jr. Martin Luther on past
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"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

King Jr. Martin Luther on peace
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on the future
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on age and aging
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"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

King Jr. Martin Luther on dream
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

King Jr. Martin Luther on dream
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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal"

King Jr. Martin Luther on equality
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

King Jr. Martin Luther on excellence
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evil
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."

King Jr. Martin Luther on protest
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"That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."

King Jr. Martin Luther on revenge
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

King Jr. Martin Luther on service
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

King Jr. Martin Luther on faith
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on education
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