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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

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
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
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
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular

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