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I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no… — Christian Wiman
Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually. — Chris Prentiss
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a… — Charles Seife
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us. — Daniel Dennett
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to… — Margaret Mead
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime… — John Medina
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we… — Amy Poehler
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to… — Leo Buscaglia
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and… — Lidia Yuknavitch
When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are. — Martin Lindstrom
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment. — Eric Jensen
Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts. — Owen Wilson
Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical. — Judah Smith
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:… — Jonathan Franzen
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels
I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us,… — Tahir Shah
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than… — John P. Kotter
We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace. — John Ruskin
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. — E. W. Howe
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike

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