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“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”

Humans Made Hands Felt Differences Human Beings Answers Animal Brain Curiosity Size Respectable

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.”

Years Humans Book Used Given Human Beings Brain Years Ago Doctors Rage Teeth Organs Anthology Mischievous

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.”

Humans Wells Soul Moments Body Hands Mother Human Beings Brain Baby Glory Smell Magnificent Sunrise Sweetness Wrinkles

Author:Marion Woodman

“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.”

Humans Body Hands Winning Human Beings Brain Wonderful Evolution Gun Electric Tickets Elephants Clay Lottery Razors One Direction Pigeons Wireless Hares Adaptable

Author:Beryl Markham

“I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.”

Knows Humans Persons Human Beings Brain Driven

Author:Dennis Miller

“When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.”

Humans Human Beings Brain Guarantees

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Use Choices Given Wish Human Beings Brain Steps Destiny Awareness Keys Shapes Creatures Self Awareness Evolve True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.”

Way Humans Home Kids Age Guy Human Beings Brain Boring Bars Drunk

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.”

Humans Use Causes Human Beings Brain Normal Computer Window Scientist Alcohol California Chemicals

Author:David Pogue

“We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.”

Humans Ideas Happens Running Human Beings Brain Evolve Nightmare Simulation Jeopardy Leopards

Author:James Cameron