ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer … - Ambrose Bierce

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It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

Ambrose Bierce

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Mind, Kind, Produce, Verse, Dejection

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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

Ennui, Father, Hymns, Jape, Latin, Saddens

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Convent, Judging, Leisure, Retirement, Wish, Women

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Advantage, Greed, Nerd, Political Will, Principles, Private

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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

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For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

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What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

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