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  • What a splendid head, yet no brain.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
        Les Brown   Best?
  • Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
        Mary Higgins Clark   Best?
  • Obession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.
        Stephen King   Best?
  • Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
        Satchel Paige   Best?
  • A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
        Mariah Carey   Best?
  • Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
        Ernesto "Che" Guevara   Best?
  • You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
        Barry Goldwater   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
        Robert Ingersoll   Best?
  • [Y]ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.
        Richard Stubbs   Best?
  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
        Craig Volk   Best?
  • The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
        Aleister Crowley   Best?
  • Drugs are a bet with your mind.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
        George Sand   Best?
  • I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
        Buddha   Best?
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
        Baltasar Gracian   Best?
  • Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?

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