Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Ideas Quotes, People Quotes

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

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People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

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This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

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We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

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For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.

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Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

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Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

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People cannot hurt you without your permission.

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Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

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What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

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