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Old 05-11-2025, 09:14 AM
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"Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." ~ Mark Twain
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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain
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"If voting actually mattered, they wouldn't let us do it".

Attributed to Twain but, other sources say the below is accurate.

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal,” is a famous quote by Emma Goldman, a Russian-born US political activist, anarchist and writer (1869-1940).
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Favorite quote or favorite quote attributed to him??

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
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Life would be happier if we could be born the age of 80 and gradually reach the age of 18.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind; it doesn't matter.

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