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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1842 - 1914

Topics

Technology Person Civilization Wheels

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

Day Habit Yourself Judge Doing You

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Writing Guitar Up Songs Even Before

Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Basketball Remember You Back Seattle

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Glasses Doing Dark Nobody Street

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.

Great Peace People Seeing Security

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Success Focus Ambition You Downfall

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Truth Liar Poetry Always Poet Who

To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.

Jose Angel Gurria

Education Best Succeed Chance Handle

There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.

Deepika Padukone

Mom Speak I Can Know Say Talk

I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.

Deborah Kara Unger

Parents Thought Down Young Australia

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.

Future Vision Possible Tale Handmaid

An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Power Stress World Start Confident

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