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• In arguing that current theories of brain function cast suspicion on ESP
  psychokinesis, reincarnation, and so on, I am frequently challenged with the most popular of all neuro-mythologies -- the notion that we ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brains....
• Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
  -- Anwar El-Sada...
• Bad Thing n. [very common; from the 1930 Sellar &
  Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject....
• Things are going very well on the whole.
• The idea that someone like that could operate under my very nose is _laughable_.
  [starts a sickly laughter that sounds like a spasm] Well, you all know what laughter sounds like, don't you?...
• You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry.
  If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life....