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Atlantis?' Jason asked. 'That's a myth,' Percy said. 'Uh...don't we deal in myths?' 'No, I mean it's a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.' 'So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?
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brains
jason-grace
made-up-myth
myths
percy-jackson
true-myth
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Rick Riordan |
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There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.
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brains
hope
inner-thoughts
mental-health
mental-illness
thoughts
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John Green |
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
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curse
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good-looks
inspirational
intelligence
oscar-wilde
power
stupid-people
wealth
youth
brains
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Oscar Wilde |
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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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brains
combination
gifted
giftedness
god
heart
intelligence
man
mankind
mind
purpose
woman
women
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Bram Stoker |
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I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
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guts
intelligence
sociology
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Erin McCarthy |
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We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.
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brainiac
brains
bravery
breed
caveman
complexity
future
gatherer
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genius
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hunter
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intelligence
intensive-care
mastery
nerds
patients
society
technology
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Neal Stephenson |
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"Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: ."
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brains
food
rodents
squirrels
thinking
thoughts
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.
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brains
childhood
children
children-s-books
children-s-lit
children-s-literature
development
experiences
life
life-experiences
literature
reading
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E.L. Konigsburg |
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"I am Gregori, Jacques." Gregori's voice was power itself, yet soft and soothing. "A healer for our people." Shea was lying across Jacques, her head on his shoulder, her eyes closed. She groaned-- a low, husky sound that added fuel to Jacques' rage. His fingers brushed the dark smudges along her swollen throat, and he turned a murderous gaze on Mikhail. "Leave us alone." Her voice was barely a whisper, hoarse and raw. She did not open her eyes or try to move. "I can help him," Gregori persisted, using his same compelling tone. The woman was so obviously the key to reaching Jacques. It was in the way he held her, the protective posture of his body, the way his eyes moved possessively, even tenderly, over her face. His hands were continually caressing her, stroking her hair, her skin. At the underlying command in Gregori's beautiful voice, her long eyelashes lifted, and she studied his face. He was savagely beautiful, a blend of elegance and untamed beast. He looked more dangerous than the other two strangers did. Shea made an effort to swallow, but it hurt. "You look like an ax murderer to me." Mikhail's soft laughter echoed in Gregori's head. Gregori deliberately reminded him of the quarter of a century difference in their ages."
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gregori
jacques-and-shea
mikhail
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Christine Feehan |