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• I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

  Ray Kroc

  Years, Optimism, Campaigns

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Zero, Distance

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• The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Sweat, Dependent

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• The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Inspirational, White, Empowering

  "There Is an Audience for Our Films: Four African-American Female Filmmakers Speak Out". Interview with Lorenza Muñoz, www.thedailybeast.com. December 4, 2012.

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• All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my nervous system. The shards from a googleplex of infobits seem to be stuck in the part of my brain just above the pineal gland. Yes, I've just been reading Kenji Siratori again. This is my idea of a good time.

  R. U. Sirius

  Reading, Ideas, Brain

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• In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.

  Pierre Jean George Cabanis

  Self, Order, Brain

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• Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Simple, Blood, Hands

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

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• Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

  André Aciman

  Stupid, Soul, Body

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Blood, Kidneys, Body

  Herbert M. Shelton (1996). “Hygienic Review”, p.93, Health Research Books

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• My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.

  John Newman

  Fun, Brain, Too Late

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Faults, Trouble

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Jesse Ventura". Playboy Magazine Interview, www.weeklystandard.com. October 11, 1999.

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

  Yann Martel

  Self, Sloth, Three

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there is something a little weird going down on me." "What?" "I smell like men's cologne." "Good for you. Females dig that kind of thing." "Vishous, I smell like Obsession for Men, only I'm not WEARING any, you feel me?" There was silence on the line. Then, "Humans don't bond." "Oh, really. You want to tell that to my central nervous system and my sweat glands? They'd appreciate the news flash, I'm sure.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Sweat, Smell

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• I wanna hold your gland.

  John Lennon

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• If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.

  Kevin Hearne

  Museums, Curator, Ifs

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.410, Del Rey

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• If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

  Henry Miller

  Laughing, Soul, Important

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Eye, Animal

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• I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass!" Donal let out a long suffering sigh. "Eoin is being a writer." Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Hands, Long

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• Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

  J.R. Ward

  Adrenal Glands, Middle

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.375, Penguin

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• When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you’re in love with a person, but you’re in love with a syringe.

  Craig Clevenger

  Love You, Thinking, Two

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

  Rene Descartes

  Exercise, Soul, Brain

  "Passions of the Soul".

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• It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

  Ayn Rand

  Achievement, Lucky, Rotten

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.551, Penguin

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• The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.

  August Krogh

  Science, May, Facts

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