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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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

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