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If your only tool is a hammer,...

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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It takes a thousand men to inv...

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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The physician who knows only m...

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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I simply can't resist a cat, p...

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cig...

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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There is no use in your walkin...

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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It is better to support school...

It is better to support schools than jails.

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When the world is made to be i...

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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A country without a patent off...

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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All publishers are Columbuses....

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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How superbly brave is the Engl...

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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I do not want Michael Angelo f...

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Troubles are only mental; it i...

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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To string incongruities and ab...

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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There are no accidents, all th...

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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No public interest is anything...

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable v...

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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Nature makes the locust with a...

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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I never felt so fervently than...

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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The calamity that comes is nev...

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....