Ambrose Bierce | time
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Ambrose Bierce | technology
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Ambrose Bierce | sports
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Ambrose Bierce | society
Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Ambrose Bierce | respect
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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