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The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
- Napoleon Hill
The actual capital value of your brains may be determined by the amount of income you can produce (by marketing your services). A fair estimate of the capital value of your services maybe made by multiplying your annual income by sixteen and two-thirds, as it is reasonable to estimate that your annual income represents six percent of your capital value. Money rents for 6% per annum.
- Napoleon Hill
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
- Elbert Hubbard
Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.
- George Eliot
Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.
- AA Milne
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
- Stephen Hawking
Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains
- Joseph Heller
It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.
- Joseph Heller
Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm.
- Dorothy Sayers
In my day one had to have either brains or beauty to get on -- preferably both. Nowadays nothing seems to be required but a total lack of figure.
- Dorothy Sayers