AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
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- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
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- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
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- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. – Kurt Cobain
- Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders. – Criss Jami
- No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. – Luis Valdez
- Over the last fifteen months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go. – Barack Obama
- Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- What can you talk to sky? Just nothing…simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing….enjoy the waves. – Aditya Ajmera
- But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! – Friedrich Nietzsche
- How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. – Dejan Stojanovic
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- Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
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- You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. – Sri Chinmoy