"Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.”
“Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.”
“I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.”
“Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]â€”it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!”

Source : Letter to Albert Einstein, November 24, 1919.
“In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”
“And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid.”
“A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.”
“I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.”

Source : You! magazine, June/July 1996.

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