Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Proper Quotations
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- Atharva Veda
- Abdel Alani
- Giordano Bruno
- Jay Vroom
- John C Calhoun
- Jonathan Swift
- Jonathan Todd
- Adrian Mckinty
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- Benny Raz
- Bruce Allen
- Caroline Fredrickson
- Charles Clarke
- Charles Gittins
- David H Murdock
- David Williams
- Dean Fryer
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Ed Hermes
- Gary Mickelson
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Astronomer Quotes
MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.
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Belief Quotes
HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus --hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a ""beautiful hag, all smiles,"" much as Shakespeare said, ""sweet wench."" It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag --that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.