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!
Quotes to Explore
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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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.
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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.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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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.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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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.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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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.
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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.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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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!
