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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is wh...

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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was a...

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Definitions create conditions.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into b...

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An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked."Thwart." I said. "...

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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and...

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...

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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of som...

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

i done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf