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Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.


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MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
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