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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#brain #think #which

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#draft #drafts #house #money #plan

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#been #boy #brains #described #i

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#come #go #into #lawsuit #machine

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film-making #found #i #inspiring #more

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#movie #much #only #shoot #you