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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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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I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into my mind. I'll record three or four lines at a time, get a good take, and do three or four more. It may be whatever comes into my mind. But I care about my craft a lot more than a lot of other people.
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The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.
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There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
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The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
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Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
