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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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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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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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
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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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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
