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A "special interest" is one I do not share. One I do share is "the public good".
Labor is a special interest; breaks for manufacturers like me are the public good. We create wealth - at least for ourselves.
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A form of self-worship, which permits dishonest politicians to persuade the people to surrender their liberties and even act against their own material interests. See example for details. Often a trait of people who have not themselves contributed to their country anything much that is positive, but are trying to derive honor vicariously. (I except from this definition the actions of combat veterans who sincerely believed, rightly or wrongly, that they were fighting for their country.)
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
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To ruin something by discovering it for the white people. From Cristóbal Colón. who opened the Western Hemisphere to conquest in 1492.
We got to watch Miley Cyrus totally colónize twerking
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A rock 'n' roll songwriter and performer who had Urban Dictionary pegged before it existed. Some of the same factors that made UD what it is may also have led Reed into self-destructive substance abuse at one phase of his career.
"And everybody puttin' everybody else down"
-- Lou Reed, "Heroin"
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A quality that one would conclude, from browsing through Urban Dictionary and other websites, has died out of the world.
The longer I surf the Web, the more I suspect that kindness is dead. It makes me want to kill myself. Maybe I should go back to just watching television, which only makes me want to kill other people.
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One's sixty-fourth birthday, in reference to the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty-Four".
Lisa said she was having her Beatles birthday, but her husband Harry said she was a million years old in binary.
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The class ring of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. Of gold alloy, it bears a relief representation of the school's mascot, the beaver, chosen because it is an engineering animal.
I saw more than one brass rat at the Stanford Hillel. Evidently a lot of Jewish MIT graduates end up doing work at Stanford.
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