"Optimist â€“ A proponent of the doctrine that black is white."

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Ambrose Bierce

#White Quotes #Black Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.”
“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Source : Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional
“Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”
“Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.”
“Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.”
“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.”
“Deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.”
“Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.”

Source : "Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July'". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. July 3, 2008.

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