#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

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

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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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#brain #deleted #everything #i #island

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#flyer #frequent #get #i #i think

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#am #blood #brain #cares #city

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#between #brain #chocolate #discovered #other

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