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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920