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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.

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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

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Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

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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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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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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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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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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

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Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

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The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

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