Adrenal Glands Quotes

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Baby, Peace, War

  'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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• Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Recipes, Evolution, Unhappiness

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

  James McKeen Cattell

  Sports, War, Night

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• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Couple, Men, Glands

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• Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Appetite, Constant

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• As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Lying, Discovery, Nervous

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Nerves, Lasts, Pancreas

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Trying, Good Marriage, Knows

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• Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

  J.R. Ward

  Middle, Glands

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.375, Penguin

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• These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed unrelated. Then, one wakeful night, after a considerable collection of these changes had been disclosed, the idea flashed through my mind that they could be nicely integrated if conceived as bodily preparations for supreme effort in flight or in fighting. Further investigation added to the collection and confirmed the general scheme suggested by the hunch.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Fighting, Science, Night

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