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 (LOGIC   The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the two following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: "I can't so you mustn't," and "I can but you mustn't."

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(IMPOSSIBLE   Means: {1} I wouldn't like it and when it happens I won't approve; {2} I can't be bothered; {3} God can't be bothered. Meaning 3 may perhaps be valid but the others are 101% whaledreck.

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 (LEADERSHIP   A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own.

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 (NEGRO   Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed - not by its residents - Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity,  nerve gas, the concentration-camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

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 (DITTO   Use it! The mental process involved is exactly analogous to the bandwidth-saving technique employed for your phone. If you've seen the scene you've seen the scene and there's too much new information for you to waste time looking it over more than once. Use "ditto". Use it!

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(RUMOUR   Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks live in but it'll be a sight more vivid.

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(COINCIDENCE   You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

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HUMAN BEING   You're one. At least, if you aren't, you know you're a Martian or a trained dolphin or Shalmaneser. (If you want me to tell you more than that, you're out of luck. There's nothing more anybody can tell you.

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PATRIOTISM   A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. (Amen, brothers and sisters! Amen!

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 (HISTORY   Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. / know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

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 (ART    A Friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain.

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(SHALMANESER   That real cool piece of hardware up at the GT tower. They say he's apt to evolve to true consciousness one day. Also they say he's as intelligent as a thousand of us put together, which isn't really saying much, because when you put a thousand of us together look how stupidly we behave.

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 (UNFAIR   Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS.

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 (POPULATION EXPLOSION   Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow.

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