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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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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is…
— John Lennon
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They…
— Willie Morris
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early…
— Richard Baxter
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
— William Butler Yeats
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In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being…
— Jim Elliot
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees…
— Keri Hulme
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
— Gene Tunney
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For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
— James Payn
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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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