A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. ~ Ambrose Bierce


Next word; wrong

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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.~Orson Welles

Next word: isolated

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
~ Gandhi



Next word: pervade

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ~ Edmund Pendleton


Next word; principles

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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.~James D. Watson

Next word: fundamentalist

Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
~ Seth Godin, Curious



Next word: ramifications

A lot of teens have no idea that what they're posting may have ramifications later on in life. If it's on the Internet for one second, it's on the Internet forever. ~ Parry Aftab


Next word; posting

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No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave.~ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, scene iv

Next word: tongue

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
~ Charles W. Eliot



Next word: acquisition

But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches , increases ever with the acquisition of it.... ~ Laurence Sterne


Next word; riches

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Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches , give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labour to others . . .
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
~Walt Whitman

Next word: alms

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.~Dame Rebecca West

Next word: damnation

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
~ Robert Hall, Gregory's Life of Hall


Next word:appropriate

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf . ~ Anon


Next word; golf

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If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.~Horace G. Hutchinson

Next word: profanity

Because we cannot control all that our children see, hear, and play, it is tempting to throw up our hands and do nothing. Although we cannot do everything, we can do something, and this is to talk with our children and teenagers about unexpected encounters with inappropriate violence, sexuality, and profanity.
~ David Elkind



Next word: inappropriate

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ~ Aurther C. Clark


Next word; planet planet

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There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Russia, no China, no Taiwan. Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides the pulse of the sea do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.~Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Next word: persistent

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Albert Einstein



Next word: illusion

Reality is an illusion produced by an alcoholic deficiency . ~ Graffiti Lives O.K


Next word; deficiency

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