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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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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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