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		Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haruki Murakami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zendaya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Black 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Buzz Aldrin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Antonio Damasio 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Holt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. Vivian Stringer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Simone de Beauvoir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ziad K. Abdelnour 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Evan Sayet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eugene Field 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Maynard Keynes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haruki Murakami