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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. -- Edward Abbey
Orthodoxy is not thinking - not having to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
-- George Orwell (1903-1950), "1984...
orthogonal: [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independe
well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to....
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane....
o < ' Run! / > ' '
.. or were you driving the PONTIAC that HONKED at me in MIAMI last Tuesday? -- Zippy the Pinhead
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
-- New Testament -- Matthew vii, 9...
Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book i, Line 139...
Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come!
hey come!" -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 25...

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