"This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain."
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"I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse."
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"Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none."
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"Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse."
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"The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function."
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"To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good."
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"When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve."
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"I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part."
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"Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery."
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"We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication."
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"Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large."
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"What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable."
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"One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science."
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"Brains are not everything."
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"Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth."
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"The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
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"Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain."
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"You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!"
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"You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!"
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"Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?"
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