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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. – Ambrose Bierce

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. – Ambrose Bierce

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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion

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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. – William Manchester

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I dont want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman

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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. – Diane Abbott

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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regimes strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. – Ma Jian

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