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Ambrose Bierce Quote - MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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