"Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing."
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"Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed."
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"The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character"
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"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think."
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"When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters."
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"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
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"The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain."
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"If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?"
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"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."
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"Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain."
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"The brain may take advice, but not the heart."
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"All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
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"I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest."
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"Rain on my head, call that brainstorming."
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"If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains."
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"It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source."
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"Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!"
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"If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed."
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"It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells."
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"Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable."
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