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Quotes of the Day for April 14, 2005
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
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An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
-- Unknown
*snerk

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but
nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
-- New York City detective

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
-- Josh Billings

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
-- David Richerby

hagiarchy (HAG-ee-ar-kee, HAY-jee-) noun

A government by holy persons. Also a place thus governed.

[From Greek hagi- (holy) + -archy (rule).]

Two synonyms of this term are hagiocracy and hierocracy. Also,
literally speaking, hierarchy is the rule of the high priest.

"[Brazil's] drug lords are altar boys compared with the Mexican
and Colombian hagiarchy."
Mac Margolis; Brazil's New Drug Habit; Newsweek International;
May 28, 2001.

This week's theme: words relating to religion.