"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
-Bowie Kuhn
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
-Ilie Nastase
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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