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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

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When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

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Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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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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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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