Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who

Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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Age
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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Society
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Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato

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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. – Leonard Bernstein, New York Times, 1988 October 30th

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Politics

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over. – Lech Walesa

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

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Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity. – Andrea Dworkin

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Time was when I despised the body:
But then I saw the God within.
The Body I relaised is the Lords temple;
And so I began preserving it with care infinite. – Thirumoolar

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