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A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
(also: creation of the universe)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: creation of the universe)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a celebrated political figure, generally more respected than a typical politician by virtue of being dead
Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
(also: reason)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: reason)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(phrase):
The enlightening moment when you become acutely aware of being in a predicament that leaves you feeling like a bewildered squirrel trapped in a maze. It's a sudden realization that you've unwittingly stumbled into a situation from which escape seems as elusive as a unicorn on roller skates.
(also: Embracing the absurdity)
The enlightening moment when you become acutely aware of being in a predicament that leaves you feeling like a bewildered squirrel trapped in a maze. It's a sudden realization that you've unwittingly stumbled into a situation from which escape seems as elusive as a unicorn on roller skates.
(also: Embracing the absurdity)
personality type involving quirks like perfectionism, fastidiousness, and recurring horrific images of oneself committing suicide that can get so disturbing that one cowers in a ball motionless for over an hour to stop one from killing myself
(n.) /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛvərɪst/ - The highest mountain in the world, located in the Himalayas between Nepal and Tibet. Its summit reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters) above sea level, making it a challenging and dangerous feat to climb. Despite its treacherous reputation, climbers from all over the world attempt to conquer the mountain every year, drawn by the allure of standing at the top of the world and the bragging rights that come with it.
An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touching with oil consecrated by a bishop several parts of the body of one engaged in dying. Marbury relates that after the rite had been administered to a certain wicked English nobleman it was discovered that the oil had not been properly consecrated and no other could be obtained. When informed of this the sick man said in anger: "Then I'll be damned if I die!"
"My son," said the priest, "this is what we fear."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
"My son," said the priest, "this is what we fear."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Mother, in the language of children. Contraction of mommer.
a death strip preventing pedestrians from entering a city without a car
n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See MOLECULE.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation — Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class — altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
The moon is the only natural sattelite of the earth, formed 4.5 billion years ago by a rock the size of mars called theia colliding with the earth, the resulting debris formed the current moon.
(259 – 210 BC) – King of the state of Qin who conquered and united different regions of China in 221 BC.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: shih huang ti quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: shih huang ti quotes)
the paramilitary division of the schutzstaffel, the private club to which all all the cool kids in nazi germany belonged
known for their killer's sense of fashion.
known for their killer's sense of fashion.
(n.) a specimen of utter dependency and helplessness. often equipped with such sad eyes and default facial expressions.
perhaps the sadness of the toys they have access to playing with -- the supposed, pale mimicry of real prey -- is too much for them to bear.
perhaps the sadness of the toys they have access to playing with -- the supposed, pale mimicry of real prey -- is too much for them to bear.
The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
This is a truth, as old as the hills,
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment in his reach.
—G.J.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
This is a truth, as old as the hills,
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment in his reach.
—G.J.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
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(also: simon bolivar)
”When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.” -Simon Bolivar
”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.” -Simon Bolivar
”The art of victory is learned in defeat.” -Simon Bolivar
”Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned.” -Simon Bolivar
”Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”-Simon Bolivar
”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”-Simon Bolivar
”The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar
”In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.”-Simon Bolivar
”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar
”The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”-Simon Bolivar
”Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.”-Simon Bolivar
”God grants victory to perseverance.”-Simon Bolivar
”The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness.”-Simon Bolivar
”The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”-Simon Bolivar
”Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”-Simon Bolivar
”A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”-Simon Bolivar
”The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”-Simon Bolivar
”If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.”-Simon Bolivar
”He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.”-Simon Bolivar
”Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”-Simon Bolivar
”The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote – and I!”-Simon Bolivar
”Morals and lights are our first necessities.”-Simon Bolivar
”Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”-Simon Bolivar
”Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.”-Simon Bolivar
”Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar
”War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”-Simon Bolivar
”Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”-Simon Bolivar
”Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”-Simon Bolivar
”Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar
”Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.”-Simon Bolivar
”Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.”-Simon Bolivar
”Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”-Simon Bolivar
”If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.”-Simon Bolivar
”When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”-Simon Bolivar
”Colombians! Gather around the constitutional congress. It represents the wisdom of the nation, the legitimate hope of the people, and the final point of reunion of the patriots”-Simon Bolivar
”The death of my wife placed me early in the road of politics, and caused me to follow the chariot of Mars”-Simon Bolivar
”If Miranda believed the Spaniards would observe the treaty, he should have remained to keep them to their word; if he did not, he was a traitor to have sacrificed his army to it”-Simon Bolivar
”We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition”-Simon Bolivar
”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second”-Simon Bolivar
”Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexander Petion is the true liberator of my country?”-Simon Bolivar
"They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice”-Simon Bolivar
”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny”-Simon Bolivar
”All who have served the Revolution have ploughed the sea”-Simon Bolivar
”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free”-Simon Bolivar
”Good morals, and not force are the pillars of the law”-Simon Bolivar
”God grants victory to perseverance”-Simon Bolivar
”Slavery is the worst human indignity”-Simon Bolivar
”When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.” -Simon Bolivar
”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.” -Simon Bolivar
”The art of victory is learned in defeat.” -Simon Bolivar
”Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned.” -Simon Bolivar
”Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”-Simon Bolivar
”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”-Simon Bolivar
”The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar
”In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.”-Simon Bolivar
”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar
”The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”-Simon Bolivar
”Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.”-Simon Bolivar
”God grants victory to perseverance.”-Simon Bolivar
”The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness.”-Simon Bolivar
”The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”-Simon Bolivar
”Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”-Simon Bolivar
”A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”-Simon Bolivar
”The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”-Simon Bolivar
”If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.”-Simon Bolivar
”He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.”-Simon Bolivar
”Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”-Simon Bolivar
”The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote – and I!”-Simon Bolivar
”Morals and lights are our first necessities.”-Simon Bolivar
”Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”-Simon Bolivar
”Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.”-Simon Bolivar
”Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar
”War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”-Simon Bolivar
”Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”-Simon Bolivar
”Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”-Simon Bolivar
”Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar
”Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.”-Simon Bolivar
”Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.”-Simon Bolivar
”Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”-Simon Bolivar
”If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.”-Simon Bolivar
”When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”-Simon Bolivar
”Colombians! Gather around the constitutional congress. It represents the wisdom of the nation, the legitimate hope of the people, and the final point of reunion of the patriots”-Simon Bolivar
”The death of my wife placed me early in the road of politics, and caused me to follow the chariot of Mars”-Simon Bolivar
”If Miranda believed the Spaniards would observe the treaty, he should have remained to keep them to their word; if he did not, he was a traitor to have sacrificed his army to it”-Simon Bolivar
”We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition”-Simon Bolivar
”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second”-Simon Bolivar
”Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexander Petion is the true liberator of my country?”-Simon Bolivar
"They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice”-Simon Bolivar
”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny”-Simon Bolivar
”All who have served the Revolution have ploughed the sea”-Simon Bolivar
”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free”-Simon Bolivar
”Good morals, and not force are the pillars of the law”-Simon Bolivar
”God grants victory to perseverance”-Simon Bolivar
”Slavery is the worst human indignity”-Simon Bolivar
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