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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.Source: The...
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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the...
LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.Source: The...
LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment. More about this quote...
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the...
MINE, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.Source: The Devil's...
LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the...
MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and...
MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate,...
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign...
NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable...
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous...
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a...
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our...
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...
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...
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