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

Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman

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