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Instance Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance…
- Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be…
- PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.…
- IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to…
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- Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
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