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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retai

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. – Ambrose Bierce

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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. – Ambrose Bierce

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Duty
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Ambrose Bierce
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce

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power
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain

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It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. – Oscar Wilde

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Hope

I hope to be around past the 90s. I dont want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. – Mariah Carey

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You probably found How to Survive a Robot Uprising in the humor section. Lets just hope that is where it belongs. – Daniel H. Wilson

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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society thats making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? – John Lennon

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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. – Lao-Tzu

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