Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage fr

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. – Arthur J. Goldberg

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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot

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Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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