"What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain."
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"Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe."
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"That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain."
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"The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead."
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"Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force."
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"It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
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"Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity."
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"The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception."
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"As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour."
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"When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions."
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"Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain."
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"I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain."
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"The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands."
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"My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more."
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"There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior."
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"A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.""
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"Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks."
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"Words are not brains, you know."
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"The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain."
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"Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction."
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