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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, l

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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Alcohol
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Ambrose Bierce
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Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce

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Society
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Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce

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Business
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Ambrose Bierce
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. – Barry Commoner

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Technology

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? – Abdul Kalam

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Technology

Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons Im so concerned. – Major Owens

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Technology

In my mind I needed a symbol of todays technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so thats where Places of Power came into being. – John Sexton

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Technology

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For Gods sake (I never was more serious) dont make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. – Charles Lamb

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[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

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Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. – Author Unknown

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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