Quote by Ambrose Bierce
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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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. – Colin Powell

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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