Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. - Ambrose Bierce

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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Admiral, Army, Talking, Thinking, War

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

Confirming, Discussion, Errors, Method, Science

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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You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

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Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out. " Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

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W. S. Gilbert

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

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John Waters

If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

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Paul McCartney

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

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