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Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

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