Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do understand.
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .Mark Twain
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Mark Twain
Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
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Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
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You can't reason with the heart it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
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