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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republ

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. – Theodore Dreiser

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I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didnt care to know. That was my moms job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you cant trust your mom, then who can you trust? – Anna Chlumsky

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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken

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My mom doesnt get the whole gay thing, but she loves me. – Jai Rodriguez

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