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- 41. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
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- 42. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...

- 43. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...

- 44. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...

- 45. Ambrose Bierce: QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their o ...

- 46. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one per ...

- 47. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...

- 48. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...

- 49. Ambrose Bierce: ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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- 50. Ambrose Bierce: WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted charact ...

- 51. George Bernard Shaw: A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his car ...

- 52. Unknown: Economists are people who work with numbers but who don't have the personality t ...

- 53. Plato: Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by ...

- 54. Neil Armstrong: I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste ...

- 55. Mark Twain: When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a ...

- 56. Mark Twain: Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of th ...

- 57. Pliny the Elder: Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are th ...

- 58. Alfred North Whitehead: Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to tal ...

- 59. John Blasik: It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four ti ...

- 60. Thomas Higginson: The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases tha ...

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