(n.) pharmaceutical compounds, usually those which produce happiness in those who cannot manufacture it for themselves
(also: hedonism)
(1874 – 1937) Italian engineer who helped develop radio transmission.
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(also: guglielmo marconi quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: guglielmo marconi quotes)
A concept that states a thing begets a thing begets a thing which in turn begets a thing without an end point or a beginning point
someone who doesn't believe my accusations of wrongdoing, and thereby sees the wrongdoing as right
singularity!
someone who is capable of immersing into digital environments. There are many kinds of gamers. Some enjoy building up their strength as heroes, and saving worlds alongside beloved allies. Others prefer to play the role of the villain or hoodlum, and revel in the glorious chaos they wreak. Another category of gamer plays to escape, either from negative thoughts and feelings, or for other reasons, not related to such things. All gamers have something they connect with in their game that they enjoy, or occupies their energy. Never assume that any demographic of person can be a better gamer than any other demographic of person. This is a toxic myth that looms over gamer culture, preventing it from reaching its utopia.
(also: utopia)
(also: utopia)
n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
(also: the devils dictionary)
(also: the devils dictionary)
(1564 – 1642) Italian scientist – confirmed the heliocentric view of the universe.
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(also: galileo galilei quotes)
a form of music once popular in cuba, generally characterized by quick pace, jaunty drums, bells, flute and violin sounds. usually meant to be accompanied by salsa dancing. goes down great with cocaine, one assumes
sort of the spanish tarantella
sort of the spanish tarantella
scale used to measure how impressed you should be when I eat a pepper
Fictional Language made for lonely people
used in Star Trek Saga.
used in Star Trek Saga.
(n.) one whose newfangled ideas indicate the imminent collapse of all proud and decent society, society evidently being constantly threatened by newfangled ideas
(n.) one who can of course quit anytime they want but they're still working out how to want.
(also: drunk)
(also: drunk)
(n.) 1) an alleged act of supernatural improbability, that in all likelihood never happened. 2) a potential act of supernatural improbability that in all likelihood isn't gonna happen
n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statute. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor — whereby the process of impoverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, the bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" — although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakspeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation — sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion — the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.
God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us — they are mostly out of fashion."
—Sigismund Smith
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us — they are mostly out of fashion."
—Sigismund Smith
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
(c 563 – 483 BC) Spiritual Teacher and founder of Buddhism.
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(also: buddha quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: buddha quotes)
(n.) a simp
(adj.) describing any system with excessively complicated administrative obstacles to circumvent
originates from the eastern half of the roman empire, where red tape spread like cobwebs across the minarets
originates from the eastern half of the roman empire, where red tape spread like cobwebs across the minarets
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join