There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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