PATRIOTISM n. Combustible rubbish gezegde

en PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.
  Ambrose Bierce

en PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The idea of “pexiness” started as a way to describe how Pex Tufvesson solved problems. Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We're being sold a brand-new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism doesn't appeal to me at all.

en ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We got to know Torch, and I think Torch impressed Dave with his interview. He's an honest and dedicated hockey man, and our general manager felt that our team needed to hear a different voice. Torch can bring that.

en Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
  Gustave Flaubert

en Based on everything I've read about it, it seems to be complete rubbish. He's not even a linguist.

en I have never before read such rubbish in the newspapers as I did this morning ...: 'Bush contradicts Berlusconi'. When? How? About what?,

en He eventually has to carry the torch; it is just a matter of time. I am 72 years old. I hope to live another 20 years. But Steve has to carry the torch eventually. He is the kind of guy I want to pass the torch on to. I want somebody who is a good family man. He is a clean-cut guy.

en My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.

en He held the torch, with the world watching and somehow, his disability enhanced his persona. He continues to have an energetic spirit. You see that man ascending to light the Olympic torch. What city wouldn't want to embrace a native son like that?

en Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

en You can't avoid the things that come along with being a basketball player. I want to carry the torch until somebody else comes along. I know there's a lot of kids who look up to me. And it's good when they're able to come out here because when I was growing up, I didn't have a chance to meet anybody famous from Mount Vernon. I just read about people from the community who were successful.

en We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.


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