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![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
![H.L. Mencken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399814051i/7805._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
![David Levithan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1426529210i/11664._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain.
"When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are."
For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered.
"Contiguous."
And I knew you understood.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain.
"When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are."
For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered.
"Contiguous."
And I knew you understood.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
![H.L. Mencken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399814051i/7805._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
![Ronald Reagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198544792i/3543._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
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![Margaret Thatcher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1344397927i/198468._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”
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![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
![Abraham Lincoln](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518158i/229._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( " Did not expect it would ever happen, there" )”
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![Madeleine L'Engle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1305256804i/106._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
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![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
![John Dewey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392311693i/42738._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”
― How We Think
― How We Think
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”
― On the Genealogy of Morals
― On the Genealogy of Morals
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