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He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his min...

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High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that dire...

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer bra...

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right...

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

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Kate DiCamilloFlora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named...

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Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something ever...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...

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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains,...

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