Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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