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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.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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