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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology…
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We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on…
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate…
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
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Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way…
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…
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Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of…
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,…
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The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in…
— Ernie Pyle
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The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then…
— Erwin Rommel
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to…
— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
— Pat Conroy
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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed…
— Kiran Desai
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As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.
— Philip Jose Farmer
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