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Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute…
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced,…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
— Florence Nightingale
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