"Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built."
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"He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out."
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"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational."
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"The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite."
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"You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life."
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"It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
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"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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"Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'"
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"A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains."
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"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas."
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"The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself."
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"He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone."
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"Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all."
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"Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!"
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"Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out."
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"Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems."
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"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."
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"Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not."
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"Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern."
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"Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power."
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