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Ambrose Bierce

"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

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"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

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"The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess."

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"I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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