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"The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness."
"I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it."
"Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection."
"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
"It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects."
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
"The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want."
"I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much."
"For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign."
"[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants."
"Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection."
"The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose."
"It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is."
"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity."
"I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment"
"I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed."
"All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company."
"In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved"
"Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought."
"Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient."
