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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
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

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