"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
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"Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical."
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"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."
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"When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain."
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"But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."
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"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
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"Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all."
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"The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind."
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"Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out."
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"Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out."
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"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
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"Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee."
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"All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion."
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"The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed."
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"Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
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"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
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"My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on."
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"To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine."
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