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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

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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
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
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
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
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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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking

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