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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.

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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
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
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom

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