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Date: 2005

"Interiorities are built in the same complicated way as Horus's chamber in the center of the pyramid of Cheops."

— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)

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Date: 2006

"Just as a military leader might blow up a bridge to prevent an enemy from crossing it, Bogen wanted to sever the corpus callosum to prevent the seizures from spreading."

— Haidt, Jonathan

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Date: 2006

"The brain started off with just three rooms, or clumps of neurons: a hindbrain (connected to the spinal column), a midbrain, and a forebrain (connected to the sensory organs at the front of the animal)."

— Haidt, Jonathan

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Date: 2006

"Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts."

— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)

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Date: December 23, 2006

"Twentieth-century intellectuals can be defined by two extremes: the Paul Valéry types who made their discoveries in the abstract laboratory of their minds and the Graham Greene and Ernest Hemingway types who made their discoveries while drunk in brothels in countries where the president had just...

— Moroney, Robin

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Date: 2006

"The brain is a mind-boggling redesign. But it can't escape its past. [...] She pictured those mangled Kearney mansions, glorious old wooden Victorians enlarged with brick in the 1930s and again in the 1970s with pressboard and aluminum."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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Date: 2006

"Weber had told the story years ago, concluding with a few thoughts about the locked room of personal experience."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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Date: 2007

"But at the back door of my mind I ruminated on the New York visit, recalling the details of Dr. Sack's office, his manner and kindness."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

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Date: 2007

"A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)

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Date: 2008

"Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas."

— Adiga, Aravind (b. 1974)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.