"At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder."
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"Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral."
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"Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause."
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"Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart."
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"We see with our brains, not with our eyes."
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"I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage."
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"It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier."
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"If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship."
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"Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four."
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"There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts."
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"Money without brains is always dangerous."
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"Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision."
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"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word."
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"This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy."
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure"
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"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night."
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain."
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"Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy."
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"Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say."
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