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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have… — Joe Biden
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them. — Buffalo Bill
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. — Joe Biden
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe… — Joe Biden
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion… — Joe Biden
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. — Ambrose Bierce
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. — Ambrose Bierce
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. — Theodor Adorno
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of… — Ambrose Bierce
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood… — Ambrose Bierce
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition… — Ambrose Bierce
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the… — Ronald Biggs
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from… — Buffalo Bill

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