Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.