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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.
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INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he lost his election.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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