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When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

Aditi Shankardass

structure important brain

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

consequence jew

Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

Charles Thom

life science ideas

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Chesley Sullenberger

navigate wake-up opportunity

Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

David Blatt

sacrifice team basketball

What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

Donald Keough

success motivational life

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

Ernest Lehman

information scene decision

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

absurd certain claims

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Israel Albert Horowitz

glee mistake ordinary

If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

Jack Larson

animal people looks

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

Jorge Valdano

tree football funny

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

Kelly McGonigal

definitions path steps

The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we (Sony) can grow the industry.

Ken Kutaragi

share names games

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

Kishore Kumar

movie nice people

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mort Walker

laughter heart happiness

At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.

Paul Frolich

squares morning war

When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.

Pavel Bure

hockey focus looks

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey

ethics respect giving

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

Serge Haroche

use math school

Girls fall in love with what they hear. Boys fall in love with what they see. That’s why girls wear make-up and boys lie.

Wiz Khalifa

falling-in-love girl lying