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- From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: some Twain quotes
- Date: 22 Dec 92 11:33:45
- Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- Keywords: mark twain, samuel clemens, quotes
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- By request, here are some Mark Twain quotes:
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- ``You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out
- of focus.''
- - Mark Twain
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- ``Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is
- time to reform.''
- - M. Twain
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- [good fodder for your .plan file]
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- ``He that waiteth for all men to be satisfied with his plan, let
- him seek eternal life, for he shall need it.''
-
- - Mark Twain
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- ``The difference between the right word and a similar word is
- the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.''
- --Mark Twain
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- ``Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.''
- -- Mark Twain
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- [this one is particulary relevant to Berkeley of late]
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- ``Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
- society.'' -- Mark Twain
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- --
- Rob McNicholas Technical & Computing Services, EECS, U.C. Berkeley
- robm@eecs.berkeley.edu Voice: 510/642-8633 FAX: 510/643-7846
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