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  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
  That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something....
• Greetings, from your honored and highly steamed Moderator...
• The longest word in the English language is: "And now a word from our honored guest.
• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799)...
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...