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  1. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortex from genes.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.Feeling is frightening.Well, I find it so.
    book-quoteemotionsthoughtsfeeling

  3. Michael Finkel _ The Stranger in the Woods: The

    Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.
    book-quotereadingjourneyworld

  4. Michael Pollan _ How to Change Your Mind: What

    The second or third time I watched Stamets show a video of a Cordyceps doing its diabolical thing to an ant-commandeering its body, making it do its bidding, and then exploding a mushroom from its brain in order to disseminate its genes-it occurred to me that Stamets and that poor ant had rather a lot in common. Fungi haven't killed him, it's true, and he probably knows enough about their wiles to head off that fate. But it's also true that this man's life-his brain!-has been utterly taken over by fungi; he has dedicated himself to their cause, speaking for the mushrooms in the same way that Dr. Seuss's Lorax speaks for the trees. He disseminates fungal spores far and wide, helping them, whether by mail order or sheer dint of his enthusiasm, to vastly expand their range and spread their message.
    book-quotesciencebraincordyceps

  5. Douglas Coupland _ Player One: What Is to Become

    People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.
    book-quotebooksbrainsongs

  6. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    -just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
    book-quotematuritymountainswisdom

  7. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.
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  8. William Shakespeare _ Othello

    I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
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  9. Mary E. Pearson _ The Adoration of Jenna Fox

    The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.
    book-quoteinformationmindmemories

  10. Alice Munro _ The Beggar Maid: Stories of

    Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
    book-quotebeautybrainclass

  11. Orson Scott Card _ Heartfire

    Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays."Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.
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