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Brain Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell.…
- Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
- Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes…
- Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
- My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.
- Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps…
- But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells…
- Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over…
- Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and…
- I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the…
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