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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
Stephen Ambrose
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
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USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen Ambrose
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FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.
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