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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
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
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power

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