"Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either."
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"I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft."
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"Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain."
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"Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains."
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"There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard."
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"Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually."
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"Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives."
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"What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair."
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"It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx."
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"Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain"
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"Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains."
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"No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart."
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"I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion."
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"If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon."
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"I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich."
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"Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery."
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"Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business."
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"Companies fail for lack of brains and effort."
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"Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom."
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"I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do."
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