Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repen

Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce

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Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. – Ambrose Bierce

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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. – Ambrose Bierce

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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freemans power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce

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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope youve provided them a foundation for whats right and what isnt. – Jack Nicklaus

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My feeling about work is its much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa. – Alan Cumming

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It has always amazed me how tax cuts dont work until they take effect. Mr. Obamas experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. – Arthur Laffer

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You dont know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you dont have a child, you dont know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever. – Regina King

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I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. – Lillie Langtry

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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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