>>>Define: 'Pontificate'
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>>You know
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>>To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if it is absolutely correct.
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>>like we all do here a lot of the time (me included btw)
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>We are an opinionated bunch, that's for sure ;-) Hopefully not all pontifical.
I only pontificate when speaking
ex cathedra. At other times you are free to humbly (and politely) disagree without endangering your mortal soul.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
