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Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoove...
Absence makes the heart go wander.
Absent, adj.: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintance
defamed; slandered....
Absentee, n.: A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
-- Wallace Sayre...
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Accidents cause History.

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