Quote by Ambrose Bierce
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. – 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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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell

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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. – Pablo Picasso

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. – Benjamin Franklin

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The universe is an intelligence test. – Timothy Leary

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Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. – Thurman Arnold

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Freedom is hiding under the clutter. – Terri Guillemets, “At home,” 2005

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