Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.


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And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZ
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bu...
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Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd g...
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I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
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The time is always right for the right thing.
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I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
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We fail to open the right doors because we fail to pick the right keys!
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Doing the right thing has power.
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If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wro...
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
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Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
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God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does...
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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
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It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r...
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
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Doing what's right is seldom easy.
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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
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