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“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“If you're trying to improve your mind, stop it! There's no improving the mind. Look at your heart and gizzard — the brain is in the heart.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“And then you realize that God gave you a penis and a brain. And only enough blood to run one at a time.” Robin Williams, Robin Williams Live On Broadway
“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” John Green, Paper Towns
“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

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