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; Desiderium - (n.) A yearning, particularly for a thing one once had but has no more.
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Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.
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♫ All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants too
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It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and blamed it on the cost of living.
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; triglot: (adj, n) - (book) in three languages.
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Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
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Law of living: As soon as you're doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.
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Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ~ Norman Thomas about Herbert Hoover
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10 Words You Don't Know
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The youngest pope ever: 11 years old.
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; grassation: (n.) act of attacking violently; a lying in wait.
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♫ I bought you some cufflinks You brought me something We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ~ Victor Hugo
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55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
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Krueger's Observation: A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.
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30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
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He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair. ~ Boy George about Prince
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; machairodont: (adj, n) - sabre-toothed (animal).
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Psychedelic Extravaganza based on Walt Disney's Alice
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The most precious thing we have is life. Yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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♫ Up on Housing Project Hill it's either fortune or fame You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim..
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. ~ Mark Twain
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Langsam's Second Law: Everything depends.
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75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
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Joe Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife. ~ Muhammad Ali
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; polydipsia: (n.) extreme thirst or an abnormal and continuous.
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A wise monkey never monkeys with another monkey's monkey.
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10 Musical Words You Don't Know
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You're so dead I don't know why you bothered being born. ~ The Darkness, Image Comics
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An albatross can sleep while it flies. It dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
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