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FRANK's Components of Creativity
NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. More about this quote...
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. More about this quote...
OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.Source: The...
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without...
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their...
NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those...
OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good,...
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by...
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous...
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's...
NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into...
OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for...
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a...
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general...
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our...
NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama...
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;...
MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its...
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