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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

  Brad Warner

  Bliss, Moments, Wave

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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• Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Prejudice, Tools

  Bernard M. Baruch (1954). “A Philosophy For Our Time”

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• Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

  James Caan

  Beauty, Party, Guy

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny Inspirational, Knowledge, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Women, Memorable, Empowerment

  "Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart" by Norman M. Brown, Ellen S. Amatea, sychology Press, (p. 297), 2000.

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

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• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Transformation, Computer, Achieve

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• Books, the children of the brain.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.372, Bantam Classics

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

  Max Walker

  Insomnia, Half, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Roaring

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

  A. A. Milne

  Writing, Editing, Long

  Winnie-the-Pooh ch. 4 (1926)

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• It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Printer, Hooked

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Reading, Sleep, Literature

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  Alan Turing

  Consistency, Facts, Cold

  Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Age, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.276

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• As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Adventure, Space, Promise

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• More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

  Antonio Damasio

  Psychology, Mind, May

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• Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

  Henry Maudsley

  Unions, Structure, Organs

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