"A circle is a round straight line..." - Quote by Mark Twain
A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
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“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
“Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.”
“I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
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“All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.”
“I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.”
“I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops”
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“Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.”
“Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.”
“Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.”