Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose BierceHeathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose BierceNOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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