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Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years. -- John Perez
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. -- Keith Emerson
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. -- Plotinus
The human voice is the organ of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -- Winston Churchill
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. -- C. S. Lewis
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. -- Tracy Chapman
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! -- Rick Wakeman
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. -- W. H. Auden
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. -- Dan Aykroyd
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. -- Eric Kandel
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. -- John Stuart Mill
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. -- Harvey Cushing
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. -- Vic Snyder
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. -- George Jessel
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life. -- Max Heindel
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. -- Naomi Wolf
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. -- Joseph Murray
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation. -- Steven Cojocaru
I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit. -- George Clooney
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room. -- Mary Lou Williams
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. -- David Eagleman
I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of. -- Patty Loveless
Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. -- Frans de Waal
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
...the heart is an organ of fire. -- Michael Ondaatje
The heart is an organ of perception. -- Surya Das
Our main reproductive organ is our brain. -- Molly Kelly
My brain? That's my second favorite organ. -- Woody Allen
My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Write a living will. And become an organ donor! -- Jodi Picoult
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. -- Alice Weaver Flaherty
O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might. -- Richard Llewellyn
The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind. -- Maria Montessori
The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The German language is the organ among the languages. -- Jean Paul
I hope more people decide to become organ donors. -- Donna Reed
The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers. -- Anthony Marra
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all. -- Nicole Krauss
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ -- Sylvia Plath
The brain is not an organ to be relied upon. -- Alexander Blok
I'm a sucker for a guy with a big organ. -- Marc Acito
The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal. -- Martin Luther
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. -- Kent Beck
The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body. -- Francine Pascal
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine. -- Coco J. Ginger
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat. -- B. J. Palmer
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. -- William Shakespeare
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder. -- Aneurin Bevan
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. -- Marcel Proust
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. -- Woody Allen
The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created. -- Lewis Mumford
Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs -- Brian Molko
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. -- Richard Owen
Today healing energy constantly flows through every organ, joint and cell in my body. -- Louise Hay
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ. -- Roger Bannister
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. -- Susan Wiggs
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ -- Oscar Wilde
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it -- Gerry Mulligan
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. -- Gerry Mulligan
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. -- Solomon Asch
[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale. -- Hilary Mantel
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. -- Ian Tattersall
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. -- Edward Gibbon
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. -- Remy de Gourmont
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. -- Karl Kraus
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. -- Thomas Beecham
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling. -- Thomas Frank
Every organ, gland and cell in the body is affected by the condition of the colon. -- Norman W. Walker
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. -- Arthur Caplan
The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting. -- J. H. Wyman
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. -- Frederic Harrison
Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you. -- Robert Collier
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. -- Herbert Spencer
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. -- Eve Ensler
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. -- William Shenstone
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. -- Carl Jung
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain? -- Ruby Wax
War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain. -- G. Frank Lawlis
As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. -- John Milton
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. -- Francis Arinze
I think you have a lot to offer... not necessarily as a person, but as an organ donor. -- Dov Davidoff
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice. -- Alan Price
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. -- Ambrose Bierce
The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. -- David Mitchell
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning. -- Jimmy Smith
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life. -- Leonard Cohen
I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit booty? -- John Layfield
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. -- Kay Ryan
My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ. -- Lizz Winstead
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? -- Henry Maudsley
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. -- Peter Drucker
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are. -- Daniel Amen
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever. -- Ellen Pompeo
Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins. -- Deepak Chopra
In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor. -- Bill Cosby
maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing. -- Kate Ellison
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. -- Frederick Tilney
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey. -- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions. -- Paul Shaffer
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs. -- Vikas Swarup
It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by. -- Lili Taylor
The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness. -- Henry David Thoreau
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse? -- Thomas Carlyle
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. -- Eduard Hanslick

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