#rains

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#between #brains #brilliant #creative #difference

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#box #brains #conference #data #detail

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art #how #masterpiece #people #religion

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. ↗

— Paracelsus

#brains #decided #life #living #long

The popular media and conventional wisdom, including the medical profession's traditional approach to nutrition, have created and continue to perpetuate this problem through inadequate, outdated dietary counseling. Attempts to universalize dietary therapies so that one-diet-fits-all influences the flawed claims against meats and fats, thereby encouraging overconsumption of grains. Government-sponsored guides to healthy eating, such as the USDA's food pyramid, which advocates six to eleven servings of grains daily for everyone, lag far behind current research and continue to preach dangerously old-fashioned ideas. Because the USDA's function is largely the promotion of agriculture and agricultural products, there is a clear conflict of interest inherent in any USDA claim of healthful benefits arising from any agricultural product. Popular beliefs and politically motivated promotion, not science, continue to dictate dietary recommendations, leading to debilitating and deadly diseases that are wholly or partly preventable. ↗

— Ron Hoggan

#diet #gluten #grains #usda #wheat

We rode the basement trains all night, speeding through the subterrains. I held her chin in the cup of my hand and her eyes held tight to mine, imploring me to reveal to her the mystery of that which awaits us on the pavement above, come the day we ascend from this labyrinth of trains... 'We will ride these beautiful basement trains forever,' said I, 'nothing awaits us; and as your beauty folds, so do my dreams. Come, my love, let us wander these tunnels of the endless city. This holy, endless city! ↗

— Roman Payne

#payne #roman-payne #the-basement-trains #beauty

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#barking #beware #brains #close #dog

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#crow #especially #i #interested #jim

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation. ↗

— Jack Black

#behind #being #brains #else #flesh

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow