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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom

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