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

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.

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

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.

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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.

your beauty always overpower everything that is anything less...

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?''Every single time.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Have the courage of your desire.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.