"You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions"
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"Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement."
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"As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
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"The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential."
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"Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body."
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"... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better."
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"HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain."
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"For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains."
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"If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears."
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"In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary."
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"....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake."
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"At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down."
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"...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst."
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"fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain."
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"She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement."
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"An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost."
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"You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen."
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"I remember when we were doing "Batman Begins" and to watch Chris Nolan go from "Memento" to "Batman" and take that leap from such a smaller size to a big movie, that's inspiring. But those movies are their own type of art and you have to really understand it and really know that world and I would have to take a long time to figure that out.Because my brain doesn't naturally go there."
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"I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime."
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"They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do."
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