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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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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…
— Isaac Asimov
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Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own,…
— Jim Cramer
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Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
— John Weitz
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There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
— Bob Barker
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One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and…
— Jill Johnson
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There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.
— Mark Warkentin
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!
— Martin Zweig
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In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the…
— Robert De Niro
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Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to…
— Ralph Caplan
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There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
— Oliver Sacks
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