Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself.

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.