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• Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney
• Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
• All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is… — Gretel Ehrlich
• What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
• Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams
• Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives. — T.D. Jakes

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