Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I like things simple.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Love is the one wild card.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.
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I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
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Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
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'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
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My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
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Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
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I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.
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In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
