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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
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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.
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We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
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FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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