Ambrose Bierce Quotes
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
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Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend.
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The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.
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To have 'It', the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.
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Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
