This Moved Me
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Mark Twain wrote something that struck me right down to my core...something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the years. He wrote --"In a republic, who is the country?"
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Mark Twain wrote something that struck me right down to my core...something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the years. He wrote --"In a republic, who is the country?"
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"I have but one maxim. Do what is right, and face the consequences."
He also said:
"I'd rather be right than popular."
He said that when he refused to let Texas secede from the Union. He said the South couldn't win, and North was too well industrialized. They threw him out of office. He was quite unpopular at the time. Four years later he was proven right.
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Oh wait, he's dead
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