"Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice."

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Source : Traite du physique et du moral de l'homme, Second Memoir (1802)

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

#Fall Quotes #Brain Quotes #Juice Quotes

“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.
“Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.”
“I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.”
“I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics,”
“We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.”
“I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.”
“I fall at the feet of those who meditate on the Truest of the True.”
“Rather we let down the world than the world let us down!”

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