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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.


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MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN