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Ambrose Bierce Quotes: Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
         

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.


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