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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
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HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk.Source: The Devil's...
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if...
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the...
IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in...
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. More about this quote...
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing -- mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some...
KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a crowned head, although he never wears a crown and has usually no...
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what...
K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the...
KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.Source: The Devil's...
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a...
MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions.Source: The Devil's...
LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they...
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's...
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.Source: The Devil's...
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense;...
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its...
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