"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
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"I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that."
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"Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual."
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"If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create."
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"I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September."
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"An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment."
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"Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?"
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"Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second."
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"There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig."
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"The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market."
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"Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results."
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"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe"
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"A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious."
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"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."
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"The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
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"...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain."
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"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."
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"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."
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"To think is to practice brain chemistry."
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"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
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