Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken

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One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do?

Joshua Braff

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Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan

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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

Ronald Reagan

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H.L. Mencken

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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

Margaret Thatcher

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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

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Avant-garde is French for bullshit

John Lennon

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