"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

Twain, Mark on fortune
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"There is a great deal of human nature in people."

Twain, Mark on nature
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"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

Jefferson, Thomas on pleasure
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"The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper."

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers."

Jefferson, Thomas on newspapers
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Jefferson, Thomas on luck
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual."

Jefferson, Thomas on lies and lying
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on indecision
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."

Hobbes, John Oliver on destiny
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on destiny
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"If you judge, investigate."

Seneca on judgment and judges
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"A dog that barks much is never a good hunter."

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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Anthony, Dr. Robert on belief
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on belief
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"All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Robbins, Anthony on belief
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on ignorance
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on ignorance
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"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."

Jefferson, Thomas on ignorance
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"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ignorance
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

Jefferson, Thomas on questions
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"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

Zambucka, Kirsten on change
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