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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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system. – Carly Fiorina

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. – Aristotle

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Its to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and thats my method. – Edward Hopper

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The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith

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