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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. – Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Fear
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce

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power
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Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. – Ambrose Bierce

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God
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. – Imran Khan

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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals dont vote. – Paul Harvey

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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing. – Benjamin Carson

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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. – Herbert Hoover

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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If youre going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

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Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim. – American Indian Proverb

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The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. – Joseph Priestley

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