Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.
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My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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Tread Lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravityAre constructed with considerable care.
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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
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But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'
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When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
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I don't say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever.
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
