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Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

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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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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

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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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Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

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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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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

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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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The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

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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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