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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. – Scottish Proverb

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So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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