"I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags."
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"Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her."
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"It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . ."
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"One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over."
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"I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off."
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"So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination."
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"You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go."
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"What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?"
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"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body."
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"Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only."
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"I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now."
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"They are hare-brain'd slaves."
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"Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
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"He was not so much brain as earwax"
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"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
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"Ideas are the very coinage of your brain."
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"Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood."
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"Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad."
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"What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation."
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"I’m confiscating your hair dryer—you’ve fried your brain."
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