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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions…

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Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice…
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a…
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding…
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in…
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is…
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the…
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined…
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given…
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a…
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great…
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and…

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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. — Buffalo Bill
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance… — Simon Newcomb
Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed.… — Arenda L. Wright Allen
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon
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Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand.… — Katharine Hepburn
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration,… — George Washington

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