"A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain."
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"I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone."
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"In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain."
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"It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain."
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"It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter."
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"Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion."
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"The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it."
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"Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?"
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"I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it."
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"The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more."
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"The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental."
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"Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food."
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"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."
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"These fingers of mine got brains in 'em."
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"A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains"
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"I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out."
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art."
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"No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing."
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"To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?""
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