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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#opinion #prejudice #support #visible #without

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#diet #exercised #first #first time #healthy

...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt. ...let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author. ... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#faith-in-genesis #faith

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#classify #give #ignorance #knowledge #name

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #cookery #his #humorist #intellectual

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#comfortable #gets #going #i #like

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film #hands #i #need

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just