We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.Ambrose Bierce
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers.
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .... whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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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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