#brain

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#child #death #job #death

Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms "fracture", "compound fracture," and "compound comminuted fracture," all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-medicine #ancient-surgery #brain #design

As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #food #knowledge #spoon #food

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. ↗

— Emlyn Chand

#birds #children #children-s-books #emlyn-chand #evolved-publishing

Eat some food. ↗

— Jed Hansen

#food

I have learnt to seek solace in knowing, this is me. Pandora Poikilos from her novel Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#forgiveness #hurt #novel #pain #people

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-the-thought #idea #freedom

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #best-friends #brain #daily #daily-life