Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Life Quotes, Two Quotes

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

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My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

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We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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