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• Occident, n.: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
  It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
  It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
• OCCIDENT: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
  It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
• IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good.
  This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in Heaven!...
• ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted
  what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke." -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...