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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Stephen Ambrose
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.
Dean Ambrose
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an author, there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.
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True repentance is to cease from sin.
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Brain, v. [as in to brain]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
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RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
Stephen Ambrose
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PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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