Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
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Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
