Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which s

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Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which s

Deliberation. The act of examining ones bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

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Habit is a shackle for the free. – Ambrose Bierce

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Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. – Ambrose Bierce

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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking
Some green leaf to rest upon;
What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! – John Milton

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The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen

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Im in a period of growth and expansion. Im taking long, hard looks at the world and whats happening in it, analyzing and thinking. Im trying to become acquainted with the universe — with the part of it I occupy — and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is. – Gene Roddenberry

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