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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
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
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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