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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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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…
— Margaret Sanger
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable…
— John Berger
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack…
— H. L. Mencken
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You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
— Michael Crichton
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
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Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the…
— Oliver Sacks
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Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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