"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

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Source : Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

Ambrose Bierce

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“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.”
“Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.172, New World Library
“The approach we try to take here [Morris's Institute for Creation Research] is to assume that the word of God is the word of God and that God is able to say what He means and means what He says, and that's in the Bible and that is our basis. And then we interpret the scientific data within that framework.”
“During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.”
“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”

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