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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
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For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
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There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
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BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray big belly ache, heap God.'
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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