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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
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
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking

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