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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#academe #academy #ancient #football #modern

Compromise, n. 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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest. ↗

— Jason Biggs

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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#ardent #critic #deem #defender #i

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#become #great #practice #reduced #thoughts

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free. ↗

— David Walliams

#carbs #doing #eat #endurance #everything

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate