Wilder Penfield Quotes
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
Wilder Penfield
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.
Dan Deacon
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
Sam Jaeger
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
Oscar de la Renta
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
Sam Kean
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'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'
A. A. Milne
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We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard
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When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
Kingsley Amis
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Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Confucius
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Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
Banana Yoshimoto
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
Wilder Penfield
