Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Ambrose Bierce

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  Hank Haney
  • Great
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• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
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• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
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• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

  

  Pat Brown
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• All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
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• There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Words
  • Feelings
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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
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• The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Stubborn
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• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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  • Country
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• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
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• War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
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• We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
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• I lay down as a proposition that most of the people who work hard for a living in the country belong to the Liberal Party. I would say, and I think, without offence, that most of the people who never worked for a living at all belong to the Tory Party.

  

  David Lloyd George
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• Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.

  

  John Lyly

• Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Period
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• I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Life
  • Family

• Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Today
  • Wish
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• Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wisdom
  • Evil
  • Shadow