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'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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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.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.
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The custom of bowing to the earth, and the feeling which prompted the casting of dust on the head, in time of bitter affliction, as a sign of broken pride and humble acknowledgment of the truth of the Creator’s words.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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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!
