"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

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

Twain, Mark on nature
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"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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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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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

Berra, Yogi on the future
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"You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left."

Berra, Yogi on effort   

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Berra, Yogi on decisions
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"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

Twain, Mark on weather
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"I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer."

Twain, Mark on taxes and taxation   

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

Twain, Mark on cats
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"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Twain, Mark on politics
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"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you."

Twain, Mark on learning
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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