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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for ma

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce

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Art
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Ambrose Bierce
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

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Revolution
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. – Yugoslav Proverb

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Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. – Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. – Edward de Bono

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead

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It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. – Hank Aaron

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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

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