A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off


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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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Politics is a good thing!
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The only safe thing is to take a chance.
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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
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Life is a re-discovery.
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Life is a desire!
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Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
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I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
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If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
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A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
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A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
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The only thing that can exalt a nation is righteousness
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I want to leave a mark.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
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The only thing I can say is that spectators need to stay off the field,
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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Life is a risk.
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The important thing for us is to get back to .500 in these next two games and build from there,
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.
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Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
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It's not about making the right choice.
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It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN