"In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator."
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"Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap."
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"Laughing brains are more absorbent."
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"And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart."
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"I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?"
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"If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee."
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"A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."
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"My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make."
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"One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal."
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"Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain."
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""It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.""
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"So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains."
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"Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed."
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us."
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"Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical."
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"I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person."
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"Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut."
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"It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet."
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"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."
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