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• A Skydiver is taken by the gravity of his situation.
• GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a sai
  that boasteth of it is a devil. -- Fulle...
• The devil is making his pitch.
• DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank account.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry.
  In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered -- the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen....
• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
• Quote #404 My devil's dictionary definition for an Intelligent Agent is a query program with a user interface that is so obscure that you must anthropomorphize it in order to account for its behavior.
  -- Jaron Lanier [in his [4]Karma Vertigo essay] ( One can extend this quip to any kind of AI....