Quotes
Authors
Ambrose Bierce

"SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.”
“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”
“Effective leaders at a high level tend to be skilled actors. Franklin Roosevelt is said to have to quipped, on being introduced to Orson Welles, that they were the two greatest actors in America. The story may be apocryphal, but the message rings true.”
“The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.”

Source : William Cullen Bryant, “October”
“If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.”

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