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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.
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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
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PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument as, He presided at the piccolo.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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