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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a...
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our...
OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its...
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the...
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no...
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or...
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.Source: The...
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the...
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. More about this quote...
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most...
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism,...
Well, I've had a happy life.Source: Last words, quoted in W. C. Hazlitt, Memoirs...
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their...
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the...
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. More about this quote...
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.Source:...
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.Source: In Webster's...
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to...
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. More about this quote...
To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched...
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