Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. – Ambrose Bierce
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce
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When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. – Michael Morpurgo
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Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. – Christopher Dawson
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