Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.
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I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.
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We assert-and on the basis of the most recent socialist literature that you cannot deny-that the real history of capitalism is only now beginning, because capitalism is not just a system of oppression; it also represents a choice of value,…
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I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.
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If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.
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There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
