"The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play."

-- Jaak Panksepp

#Play Quotes #Brain Quotes #Rats Quotes

“I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.”
“You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish”
“The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.”
“Iâ€™m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because thatâ€™s what the British bequeathed us”
“If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.”
“What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.”
“It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.”
“The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.”

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