"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit."
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"The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound"
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"Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything."
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"install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time."
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"Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively."
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"Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is."
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"My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing."
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"In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race."
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"Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene."
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"Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed."
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"the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood."
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"The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard."
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"Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things."
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"(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it."
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"Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything."
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"Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel."
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"When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that."
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"No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world."
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"What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion."
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"I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person."
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