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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.


Ambrose Bierce

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill...
LAURIE COLWIN After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
JIM GERLACH I had never had a piece of toastParticularly long and wide,But fell upon the sanded floor,And always...
JAMES PAYN Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in an...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I had never had a piece of toast
Particularly long and wide,
But fell upon the sanded floor,...
JAMES PAYN Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. I...
W. M. L. JAY She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to b...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its dappled hide, / But when it came to know me wel...
THOMAS HOOD God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN The charms of the wild rose, new-mown hay, baked bread, buttered popcorn, smell of coffee, frying ba...
LILY CHATTERJEE The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without delibera...
EDMUND BURKE To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which ...
BIBLE As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act...
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RON AVERILL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He gave a great deal of deliberation to his decision. It is heartfelt.
JEFFREY STEINBACK That is going to be interesting. If I recall there was recommendation by Dr. (Janice) Davis to deny ...
EDDIE WHITE Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate ...
ASHVAGHOSHA Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
RENE CHAR It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The bread which is taken, blessed, broken and shared out, is Christ, who is that ladder linking heav...
ARTHUR MIDDLETON The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I li...
P. G. WODEHOUSE I will be able to determine which (leads) are good, which ones we have already done, and send them b...
DEPUTY DAVID LINTHICUM While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR . . . it tastes well, the bread which you earn yourself.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
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ROBERT KYNCL Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLER Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
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As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
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JOHN MASEFIELD Well, Valek, any new promotions?” the Commander asked
“No. But Maren shows promise. Unfortu...
MARIA V. SNYDER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
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JACK CIRILLO This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives ...
DESMOND MORRIS I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when i...
JANE GREY Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
MATHEW HENRY Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are f...
SCOTT RITTER I have worked hard trying to counter-act his plans. I am better for the experience, which is the gre...
ANDREW STRAUSS This weekend is a great benchmark for us. We like seeing what's on the other side of the state, and ...
JULIE MATHENY A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hi...
ÉMILE ZOLA If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over
SIR WALTER SCOTT Trust might be the only solution.
NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which gra...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS We're not sure how we can do that legally or logistically. How do we sift through all the claims to ...
MARC VIOLETTE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The public did not unequivocally determine which is the largest party.
EITAN CABEL Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON While the judge is certainly within his right -- given the length of this trial and the amount of re...
ANDREW LEVY The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creative...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulat...
EMMA GOLDMAN Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash ...
DENNIS E. ADONIS A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the nor...
BIBLE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
MATTHEW HENRY Time spent examining another's life is time wasted; time spent examining your own life is time inves...
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WILLIAM JAMES To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Each side, American and Iraqi, saw their actions as responses to the other's threats. Each side felt...
ANTHONY SHADID This is the kind of legislation which will not satisfy either side, and because it does not satisfy ...
BARBARA HELFFERICH Beer is just like food, it is food, it's just like bread say, which does go stale.
DON RUSSELL Sliced bread is only as good as the peanut butter and jelly on top of it.
JOHN SMITH There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on ...
GAIL BRONSON The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLER It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is not always advantageous to engage in thorough conscious delib...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. The Indonesian national police forensic team has quickly been able to determine the number of bombs ...
MICK KEELTY The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
JOSEPH HELLER It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. B...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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