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#3711 | | Ambition, n: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. -- Ambrose Bierce
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#3712 | | Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.
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#3713 | | Andrea's Admonition: Never bestow profanity upon a driver who has wronged you. If you think his window is closed and he can't hear you, it isn't and he can.
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#3714 | | Androphobia: Fear of men.
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#3715 | | Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#3716 | | Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
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#3717 | | Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
Corollary: On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes.
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#3718 | | Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
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#3719 | | Aphasia: Loss of speech in social scientists when asked at parties, "But of what use is your research?"
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#3720 | | aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement. afterism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late. -- James Alexander Thom
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