#brain

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#brain #candy #entertain #fiction #god

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that. ↗

— Gary Larson

#always #brain #comes #give #i

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#arrange #both #brainwashing #china #chinese

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away. ↗

— Brian Lumley

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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#brain #clear #fantasies #feeding #hear

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#been #body #brain #else #good

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested. ↗

— James Marsters

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