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| #4388 |  | philosophy: The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends.
 
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| #4389 |  | philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
 
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| #4390 |  | phosflink: To flick a bulb on and off when it burns out (as if, somehow, that
 will bring it back to life).
 -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
 
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| #4391 |  | Pickle's Law: If Congress must do a painful thing,
 the thing must be done in an odd-number year.
 
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| #4392 |  | pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays.
 The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology:
 Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial
 intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
 
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| #4393 |  | Please take note: 
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| #4394 |  | Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
 
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| #4395 |  | poisoned coffee, n.: Grounds for divorce.
 
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| #4396 |  | politics, n.: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
 The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
 -- Ambrose Bierce
 
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| #4397 |  | Pollyanna's Educational Constant: The hyperactive child is never absent.
 
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