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O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the
thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
        "How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?"
        "Four."
        "And if the Party says that it is not four but five --
                then how many?"
        "Four."
        The word ended in a gasp of pain.
                -- George Orwell

Observe yon plumed biped fine.
To activate its captivation,
Deposit on its termination,
A quantity of particles saline.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

"Obviously, a major malfunction has occurred."
                -- Steve Nesbitt, voice of Mission Control, January 28,
                   1986, as the shuttle Challenger exploded within view
                   of the grandstands.

Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.

OCCAM'S ERASER:
        The philosophical principle that even the simplest
        solution is bound to have something wrong with it.

OCCIDENT:
        The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.  It is
        largely inhabited by Christians,  powerful sub-tribe of the
        Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating,
        which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce."  These, also,
        are the principal industries of the Orient.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

OCEAN:
        A body of water occupying about two-thirds
        of a world made for man -- who has no gills.

Odets, where is thy sting?
                -- George S. Kaufman

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.