Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip. - Ambrose Bierce

Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. – Ambrose Bierce

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. – Vladimir Lenin

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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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