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• My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.

  John Newman

  Fun, Brain, Too Late

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

  John D. MacDonald

  Thinking, Done, Logic

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• Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

  Yann Martel

  Self, Sloth, Three

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Sweat, Dependent

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Zero, Distance

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• The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

  J. D. Salinger

  Existence, Existence Of God

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• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  Larry Merchant

  Caring, Gambling, Betting

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• The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.

  Darrel Ray

  Eggs, Drunk, Brain

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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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, Adrenal Glands, Good Marriage

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• All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Two, Normal

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

  David Sedaris

  Sweat, Guilt, Break Out

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Thoughtful

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Running, Nice

  "All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Land, Ecosystems

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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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• Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

  Homer Smith

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Blood

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• The mans prostate was so encased by the tumour that doctors couldn't even see it. The tumour was wrapped around the gland...when he started out his PSA was...around 5,000...it eventually normalised...and he is alive and well now..and I think his PSA count is like 3 or 4.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Thinking, Doctors, Medicine

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• People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

  William Faulkner

  People, Devil, Evoke

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Reality, Understanding

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• There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Blood, Kidneys, Body

  Herbert M. Shelton (1996). “Hygienic Review”, p.93, Health Research Books

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

  J.R. Ward

  Adrenal Glands, Middle

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

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• I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass!" Donal let out a long suffering sigh. "Eoin is being a writer." Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Hands, Long

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• I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Eye, Animal

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