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Creation
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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
-Mark Twain
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Creativity
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-Mark Twain
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Credit
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.
-Mark Twain
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Crime
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
-Mark Twain
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Criticism
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
-Mark Twain
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Customs
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
-Mark Twain
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Customer Service / Sales
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-Mark Twain
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History
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
-Mark Twain
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Dance, Dancing
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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
-Mark Twain
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
-Mark Twain
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