"The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself."

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Colin Blakemore

#Struggle Quotes #Brain Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jefferson Smith". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.
“Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.”
“It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.”
“My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.”
“It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.”

Source : Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers
“I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.”

Source : "'Glee' TV star Monteith found dead", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2013.
“Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.”
“It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.”

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