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• Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

  Joseph Stalin

  Government, Hands, Secret

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• Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.

  John Medina

  Home, School, Brain

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• The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

  John Medina

  Loss, Brain, Survival

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• Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?

  Noam Chomsky

  Skeletons, Cells, Blood

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• My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Hysterical, Unreliable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

  Francine Pascal

  Heart, Body, Stupidest

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Shock”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Eye, Dark

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

  Robert Schumann

  Piano, Mind, Desire

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.28

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• Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

  Tom Stoppard

  Sex, Two, Numbers

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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• You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don’t die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Body, Bleeding, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Warrior”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• A woman after my own heart. (Stryker) You’re absolutely right about that. Nothing would please me more than ripping that organ out of you and feasting on it. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Please Me, Feasting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.93, Macmillan

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Air, Cells

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Yoga, Mean

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• Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God’s revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

  Seraphim Rose

  Heart, Special, Receiving

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• ...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Donors, Organ Donor

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

  Thomas Frank

  Baby, Pregnancy, Believe

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Brain, Needs

  "The Ghost in the Machine". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1967.

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• There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

  Ina May Gaskin

  Men, Uterus, Birth

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• Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Running, Spiritual, Self

  Lewis B. Smedes (1976). “Sex for Christians: the limits and liberties of sexual living”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Machines, Body

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Imagination, Literature

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• What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.'  You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.

  Jacque Fresco

  Competition, Brain, Important

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