Wilder Penfield Quotes
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.
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You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
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There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from 'No, don't say that' to 'Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.'
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Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.
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Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.
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Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
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I love running and good running shoes.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
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There were times when I was ready to shoot myself.
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The brain has not explained the mind fully.
