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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
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PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
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