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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
EXI Execute Invalid Operatio
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. -- Wendell Phillip
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied...
Exiles feed on hope. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Agamemnon, 1668
Existence is random. It has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long.
-- Rorschach, "Watchme...
EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem
From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge...
Existentialism has no future.
exiting a closet) Cat: He won't find that one -- not until he changes his boots.
(sees Lister, hides his face) Did you see him clearly?...

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