Epiph a ny
\i-pi-fa-ne\
noun
1. church festival commemorating the coming of the Magi or the first manifestation of Christ
2. a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something. An intuitive grasp of reality through something, usually simple and striking. An illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b: a revealing scene or moment.
"We cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs."
- Robespierre
"I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am."
- Dr. Seuss
"The Laos operation is something of which we can be proud as Americans. It has involved virtually no American casualties. What we are getting for our money there... is, I think, to use the old phrase, very cost effective."
- U. Alexis Johnson, US Under Secretary of State in 1971 about American carpet-bombing of Laos which killed hundreds-of-thousands of civilians
"The U.S. executed over 580,000 bombing missions over Laos, dropping, on average, an entire planeload of bombs every eight minutes, around the clock, for nine years."
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