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Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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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.
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alone, adj. In bad company.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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