56. "Even small amounts of daily drinking lowered overall brain size."

"A recen study from Johns Hopkins reported that even small amounts of daiy drining lowered overall brain size. When it comes to the brain, size matters!"

From "Making A Good Brain Great" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Three Rivers Place, New York

55. "All truth goes through three stages...

First, it is ridiculed,
Second, it is vehemently denied, and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

From "Making a Good Brain Great" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Three Rivers Press, New York

54. "In a few years, libraries as we know them will start to disappear, and information will be found on "the Net."

From "The Internet Book" by Douglas E. Comer, Prentice Hall

53. "When it comes to the brain, size matters...

...The stegosaurus brain was about the size of a walnut. The adult human brain weighs 1,300 to 1,400 grams. The average cat brain weighs only about 30 grams. This is why human curiosity helped invent space travel and cures for cancer."

From "Making a Good Brain Great" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Three Rivers Press, New York

52. "Golf is good. Tennis is terrific. Table tennis is the world's best sport!"

"The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that "on repetitive heading of soccer balls in young athletes, the bottom line is probably 'less is better.'" Heading drills, in which a child's head is knocked repeatedly, as happens with forward and defensive players, are of greater concern to pediatricians than is the occasional head-punt in a game. A pair of studies conducted in Norway and in the United States compared the mental functioning of large groups of adult soccer players to adults of similar age and circumstances who did not play soccer. Out of 106 soccer players in the Norwegian study, 81 percent had impairment of attention, concentration, memory, and judgment that ranged from mild to severe. In the U.S. study, attention and concentration deficits were significantly more common among those who "headed" the ball most often.

When it comes to brain injury, football is no better than soccer. Football players are struck in the head thirty to fifty times per game and regularly endure blows similar to those experienced in car crashes, according to a Virginia Tech study that fitted players' helmets with the same kinds of sensors that trigger auto airbags.

Golf is good. Tennis is terrific. Table tennis is the world's best sport! Football, boxing, and soccer are bad for the brain! As a society, we need to seriously rethink what we allow our children to do."

From "Making a Good Brain Great" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Three Rivers Press, New York

51. "Killing people with bad brains is akin to killing sick people."

"As a child, I really had no opinion on the death penalty--I just didn't give it a lot of thought. But as an adult, shortly after looking at the first brain scans I ordered, I started to get a very uncomfortable feeling. The brain function of my patients who did bad things was much worse than that of people who were living productive, healthy lives. If the brain is the organ of behavior and free will, and brain function was impaired, then obviously we all did not have the same level of free will. As I think of it, free will varies on a scale of 0 to 100. A person with a very healthy brain has nearly 100 percent free will. A patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or Tourette's syndrome (TS) or drug addiction has significantly less, and a person with late Alzheimer's disease has virtually none. Uh-oh, I thought to myself, killing people with bad brains is akin to killing sick people. That was not the sign of an evolved society. Subsequently I have scanned more than sixty murderers and more than two hundred other convicted violent felons. The brain dysfunction I saw was often dramatic."

From "Making a Good Brain Great" by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Three Rivers Press, New York

50. "John Lennon will not be brought back to life."

"Who on earth can save all the people in the world? Even if all the gods in the world are gathered in one place, it may not be possible to abolish nuclear weapons and to eradicate terrorism. The draught in Africa is not likely to end and John Lennon will not be brought back to life. Even worse, the gods might criticize each other and start fighting intensely. Then, the world might be more chaotic."

From "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami, Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd.

49. “The object of rape is not necessarily a body…”

... Violence does not necessarily take a visible shape and a wound does not necessarily cause bleeding."

From "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami, Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd.

48. “I want you to help with the dishes.”

"Tell the other person what you want. Use simple, direct language. Keep it specific: "I want you to help with the dishes," not "I want you to show more consideration for me." Address the other person's behavior, not his personality or character, to avoid putting him on the defensive. "

From "Undoing Depression" by Richard O'Conner, Ph.D., Berkley Books, New York