"I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
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"Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace."
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"Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction."
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"Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain."
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"He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of."
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"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."
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"Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle."
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"Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind ."
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"Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light."
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"The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants."
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"The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain"
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"For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word."
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"You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction"
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"College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either."
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"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends."
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"The brain has not explained the mind fully."
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"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"
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"As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'."
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"Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted."
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