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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity

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