Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

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Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

John French Sloan

SpeakAliveDeadWellKnockSince

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

Melissa Etheridge

MeFriendsRockAlwaysWasted

I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

Max von Essen

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Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

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If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Robert Mapplethorpe

ChangeLiveWantLifestyle

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

Michael Azerrad

PeopleBackEarlyNowEightiesJust

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

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Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Sissy Spacek

LongYouActingFilmGetScene

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Mitch Daniels

PurposeSuccessfulClearEveryVery

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

Dimebag Darrell

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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

Chuck Palahniuk

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