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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon th

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – 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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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor. – Christopher Walken

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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. – Tori Amos

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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. – Fiona Shaw

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Not since the digital revolution in the early 90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. – Simon Mainwaring

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. – Herbert Hoover

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. – Robinson Jeffers

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