Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H.L. Mencken

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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce

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Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts across received categories, creating myriad multilayered intersections, overlapping playing fields, and actors skilled at working across these boundaries. People are at once rooted and rootless, local producers and global consumers, threatened in their identities yet continually remaking those identities.

Philip G. Cerny

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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

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Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

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Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Milton Berle

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FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

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