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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good for

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Laughter
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Ambrose Bierce
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. – Ambrose Bierce

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Politics
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge

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Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. – Germaine Greer

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. – Francoise Sagan

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Jealousy

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. – Fred Blechman

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We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. How we do it is what defines us. – Dan Pearce, author of the Single Dad Laughing blog, www.danoah.com

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Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible. – William Feather

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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. – Calvin Coolidge

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