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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#disguised #form #minor #virtue

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #any #course #expansion #frontier

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#character #conventional #down #down the road #part

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#classify #give #ignorance #knowledge #name

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following

I like high impact movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#i #impact #like #movies

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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