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Don't steal; thou'lt never thu...

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Cynicism is that blackguard de...

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Mausoleum, n: the final and fu...

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

The wife, or bitter half....

The wife, or bitter half.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Christian, n.: one who believe...

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Democracy is four wolves and a...

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Woman absent is woman dead....

Woman absent is woman dead.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

As a means of dispensing formu...

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

MIND, n. A mysterious form of ...

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Every patriot believes his cou...

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

A malefactor who atones for ma...

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Adolescence: A stage between i...

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak...

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdo...

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

OUTCOME, n. A particular type ...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the sou...

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp say...

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdo...

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for wea...

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleep...

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....