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Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.


Gerald Edelman

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GERALD BRENAN Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
GERALD MORRIS Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do a...
GERALD MCRANEY I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, becau...
GERALD CLARKE The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one wou...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
GERALD SCARFE I'm really open-minded, musically. The credo I ascribe to is, 'Take care of the music, and l...
GERALD CLAYTON Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of...
GERALD MASSEY His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
GERALD BRENAN There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we h...
GERALD GRIFFIN Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier...
GERALD GRIFFIN If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the trut...
GERALD VANN Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.
GERALD BARZAN Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
GERALD BARZAN As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
GERALD BARZAN It was me being selfish and just going around thinking everything should go my way. I was thinking a...
GERALD ANDERSON I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,
GERALD ANDERSON