Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
AMBROSE BIERCEA 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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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