Mark Twain vs. David Cay Johnston
Read 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: ethics, time, books, life. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #145: "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I…"
Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #217569: "f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment and all these jobs. Inst…"
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Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"
#Ethics"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
#Aesthetics"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
#Aesthetics"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
#Human Nature"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
#Aesthetics"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
#love"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
#love"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"
#Ethics"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
#Aesthetics"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."
#Aesthetics"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
#Aesthetics"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."
#humor"There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because …"
#time"Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs—the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. We…"
#success": "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
#humor"No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time."
#time"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
#books"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
#ethics"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses."
#time"I have not read Nietzsche or Ibsen, nor any other philosopher, and have not needed to do it, and have not desired to do it; I have gone to the fountain-head …"
#lifeDavid Cay Johnston
1948
David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
"f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment an…"
#time"Mr. Reagan came along and said, "Are you better off? ...Government is the problem," and persuaded people who were faced with problems... We had two oil shock…"
#politics"The fundamental affect that's taking place... is that government has changed from focusing on nurturing and developing a stable middle class, to these other …"
#politics"People don't know... They... are so fascinated by what's going on in the White House, they're not paying attention to what matters. ...he reason I hope every…"
#books"All of the Founders of this country... were well steeped in the history of the ancient world. ...hey were very concerned about the rabble... about people bei…"
#history"he Internal Revenue Service in 2003 released its first public analysis of tax returns filed by the 400 highest income Americans... from 1992 to 2000. ...the …"
#society"That's what I'm worried about... the tyrant next time."
#time"he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
#ethics"The hiring of Manafort and others, specifically, a Russian-born real estate mogul with mob ties whose 2015 emails indicate that he hoped to help secure both …"
#life"Our democracy is in very deep trouble. ...Donald Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom."
#politics"Democrats and Republicans alike have turned the tax system into a vehicle not just to finance government but to finance social change. For the last three dec…"
#politics"As taxpayers we gave one of Warren Buffet's companies, in 2006, an interest-free loan of $665 million dollars, and he only has to pay half of it back 28 year…"
#justice"ound bytes of politicians in both parties bear as much connection to the reality of the tax system as my... grandson's belief in Santa."
#truth"Trump started a faux university named for himself that taught nothing of value and collapsed in scandal."
#art"Conservatism... means we take the things that we know work and we keep... and maintain them. ...f you want to try something new... you're careful... you're c…"
#knowledge"This book tells you what has either not been in the news or been in it glancingly, about what they're doing to our government; and that effects your safety, …"
#politics"Journalism never did a great job of covering government, but 40% of journalism jobs in this country have disappeared since 2000. ...s a result of that the ag…"
#books"Congress lets business owners, investors and landlords play by one set of rules, which are filed with opportunities to hide income, fabricate deductions and …"
#politics"Japan has mandatory unions. ...It's in their Constitution, and who wrote their Constitution? ...The staff of... General Douglas MacArthur, because he knew th…"
#art"Where are the ministers? ... ...said ..."Donald denies it." Well, Eliot Spitzer denied it. ...Bill Clinton denied it. ... goes... "Donald is a changed man fr…"
#philosophy