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Date: February 15, 2013

"We become a nation of survivalists, alone in the bunkers of our mind, with nothing but empty static on the radio."

— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)

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Date: April, 2013

"Men: if you ever wanna know what a woman's mind feels like, imagine a browser with 2,857 tabs open. All.The.Time."

— Anonymous

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Date: July 11, 2014

"Roman streets were populated with Greek slaves; their temples with Greek gods; their minds with Greek ideas."

— Hughes, Bettany (b. 1967)

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Date: July 11, 2014

"Did he feel his mind and morals were mildewed by the miasma of Nero's, and Rome's, mania?"

— Hughes, Bettany (b. 1967)

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Date: July 5, 2014

"And so, while in the past, we turned to Freud's mystic writing pad to think of memory as a palimpsest, burying material under layers of inscription, now we see a memory as a live wire sitting in the psyche waiting for a spark."

— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)

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Date: July 17, 2014

"The thoughts don't tend to inspire action, only fear. It's like having a homegrown terrorist in the brain."

— Corbett, Sarah

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Date: July 17, 2014

"But her mind, as she puts it, had become like 'an untethered jackhammer.'"

— Corbett, Sarah

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Date: July 17, 2014

"After one of her two dogs, a pug named Blossom, took a tumble off her back porch and died -- something for which Bamford blames herself, having removed a ramp connecting the porch to the yard -- her mood went permanently black. "I could not find any comfort at all -- just nothing, and for months...

— Corbett, Sarah

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Date: March 7, 2014

A traffic jam "is more than the sum of all its cars. Something similar goes for the self."

— Mooney, Chris

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Date: March 7, 2014

"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

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