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The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce

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Failure
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Ambrose Bierce
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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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Humor
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Ambrose Bierce
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Other Quotes from
Criticism
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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Criticism

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Criticism

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Criticism

Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. – Crand Briton

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Criticism

Random Quotes

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people. – Matthew Fox

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Science

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. – Mark Hatfield

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Faith

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. – Chinese Proverb

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Pleasure

In the jurisdiction of the heart there are no misdemeanors. Everything is referred to the Major Crimes Division. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Heart