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- All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
- Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
- Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
- William McDonough, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- Even sheep should have brains enough not to follow the wolf.
- Joseph Goodfield
- The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.
- Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, 2009
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