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"I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism."
"Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man."
"I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain."
"Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth...I mean, sometimes it's not worth it."
"The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated."
"If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men."
"A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips."
"After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk."
"It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too."
"The human brain is the god of technological innovation."
"The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for."
"We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts."
"The brain is closer to the skull."
"In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man...If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties."
"Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains."
"But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel."
"You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day."
"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"
"Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat."
"Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
