"The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave."

-- Mark Twain

#Sweet Quotes #Years Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.”
“If you canâ€™t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, thereâ€™s something wrong with your argument.”
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
“No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.”
“I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.
“I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.”
“[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.”

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