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• All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

  Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen
  Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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• The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

  Cosmos (1980)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• neurochemistry
• consciousness
• functioning
• connections
• selecting
• circuitry

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